Sentence examples for a majority because from inspiring English sources

Since then, the new governor, Rosario Crocetta, has secured a majority because of defections from other parties.

The ruling party, ZANU-PF, has a majority, because Mr Mugabe appoints a fifth of the MPs.

If they teamed up with Northen Ireland's Democratic Unionist party, who hope to win nine seats, they would have 324 seats – one ahead of the informal projection for a majority because Sinn Féin refuses to take its seats.

Barring Scottish MPs from parts of the legislative process could leave the party struggling to push through legislation, even if it wins a majority, because much of its power base is north of the border.

The bill is endorsed by the National Governors Association — where Republicans hold a majority — because the states lost out on an estimated $26 billion in sales taxes last year alone.

The six young candidates collectively will make up less than 10percentt of the Legislative Council, and pro-Beijing parties are guaranteed a majority because almost half the seats represent industry and social groups, including travel agents and insurance brokers, that are dominated by pro-Beijing lawmakers.

The House presents a much bigger hurdle than the Senate, not only because the Republicans have a majority but because of the presence of a bloc of Tea Party-backed Republicans.

Should they fail either because they cannot muster a majority or because another of the permanent five casts a veto Mr Bush will almost certainly feel compelled to fulfil his promise to go to war anyway.

And therefore "over the years hundreds of local tax proposals have been defeated, not because they received less than a majority, but because they received less than a supermajority".

When the election comes, we won't be campaigning for a coalition......we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.

In the house, they won a majority largely because of a deeply flawed system which allows states, dominated by one party or another, to gerrymander the seats by districting and redistricting.