Sentence examples for a diminished majority of from inspiring English sources

Mr Cameron scraped through with a diminished majority of 24.

Facing a hostile House with subpoena power and a diminished majority in the Senate, he will have to figure out the right blend of conciliation and confrontation to reassert authority and avoid defeat in 2012.

A flat-out repeal of the health care law would face a steep hurdle in the Senate, where Democrats still cling to a diminished majority, and would most certainly be vetoed by President Obama.

The governing National Democratic Party is expected to finish the elections with a solid, although diminished, majority.

Democrats are defending more than twice as many Senate seats as Republicans — 23 to 10 — while holding on to a diminished 53-to-47 53-to-47 53-to-47

Some of these eminences dream they can arrange a "grand coalition" between the two parties.Most likely, the ruling coalition will keep a much-diminished majority, and Mr Ozawa will be under pressure to resign.

And, this continual fetish with tribal conflicts and terrorist organizations addressed as prudent foreign policy is completely blind to what belies the vast majority of human conflict, which is the global threat of diminishing resources leading to a diminished quality of life.

But this show is not the work of a man with a diminished sense of humour.

"Coincidentally," he pointed out, "there is a diminished supply of rental buildings".

Which is why I regard the liberal mindset as a diminished form of the moral imagination.

But the Post is clearly a diminished version of its old self.