What is "one percent"

Usage examples of "one percent".

Fifty-one percent favored halting all executions until a commission is established to determine whether the death penalty is being administered fairly.

That one percent of doubt inhibits him, though his mother always said that nothing in this life is absolutely certain and that refusal to act on anything less than a hundred percent certainty is in fact an act of moral cowardice, an excuse never to take a stand.

He thinks of Cass and Polly, and lost in a vast wasteland of one percent doubt, he wonders if the dead woman in the SUV might have an identical twin who stands now before him.

You don't find out whether you passed with firty-one percent or ninety-one percent, and that drives them bloody nuts.