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adjective big, chief, comprehensive, considerable, crucial, decisive, distinguished, enormous, essential, extensive, extraordinary, far-reaching, fateful, goodly, grave, great, high-level, important, impressive, intense, key, large, leading, massive, matchless, material, memorable, meritorious, moderately large, momentous, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, ponderous, pressing, prime, principal, remarkable, serious, significant, sizable, sober, solemn, substantial, supreme, top, top-level, tremendous, unparalleled, vital, weighty, worthy of consideration, worthy of remark

MAJOR, persons. One who has attained his full age, and has acquired all his civil rights; one who is no longer a minor; an adult.

MAJOR. Military language. The lowest of the staff officers; a degree higher than captain.

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The fact John Major is now following the First Minister's idea, is to be welcomed.

Independence for Scotland will fan flames for Wales; Ex-PM Major's warning

MILLIONAIRE": Holmfirth man John Major celebrates his status after winning the airport prize draw

John's got that millionaire feeling; Hungarian 'fortune' is just the ticket for traveller

For his part, John Major expressed happiness for visiting Kurdistan and his participation in the opening of a British Consulate in Kurdistan.

Barzani, Major open British Consulate in Erbil

Baroness Thatcher was invited as she is a Lady of the Order, and Sir John Major as he became legal guardian to William and Harry after Diana died.

BROWN AND BLAIR IN GUEST LIST SNUB

Sir John Major appearing on the BBC current affairs programme.

Brown is to blame for 'train wreck' economy; POLITICS Major predicts recession will bite deeper in UK

I told John Major I had better learn the national anthem, and he told me to take Wales to my heart.

Hague's revelation

Sports mad John Major was at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on July 31 last year when England played the West Indies in the second npower Test.

YOU PAID pounds 1,600 FOR JOHN MAJOR TO WATCH CRICKET; Shock costs of protecting VIPs

FORMER Conservative Prime Minister John Major is today made a Knight of the Garter, Britain's highest honour.

UK's highest honour for John Major

THE friend of John Major who was gunned down after trying to stop a bank robbery said today he had been motivated by "anger".

'I'd do it all again,' says shot bank hero

Others will draw the inevitable comparisons between Major, the premier whose catchphrase was `Back To Basics' and whose politics were supposed to be all about honesty and decency and John Major, the secret adulterer.

Major's gutless silence is real shame; He allowed Edwina to blab

Drawing from interviews with Bill Clinton; British prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair; Irish Taoiseaches (Irish prime ministers) Garrett FitzGerald, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern; Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness; secret assassins; and a host of others, ``Endgame in Ireland'' examines the past two decades of The Troubles.

THE TROUBLES PBS AIRS A CAREFUL RE-EXAMINATION OF THE BRITISH-IRISH CONFLICT

John Major called him a lucky man, and when Boutros-Ghali published An Agenda for Peace in 1992, he was hailed for breathing new life into what many saw as a moribund organization.