Sentence examples for a majority lay from inspiring English sources

With a solid base in the west, Mr Harper quickly concluded that his best hope of turning his current parliamentary minority into a majority lay in winning more seats in Quebec.

Private polling had persuaded the Tory campaign director Lynton Crosby that Cameron's most likely route to a majority lay in gobbling up Lib Dem-held seats in the south-west.

If the Republicans win all six "tossup" races, their best path to a majority lies in winning Massachusetts and either Wisconsin, Connecticut or Ohio.

For the analyses, we only studied saccades with an amplitude of 8° or less (the vast majority lay in the region 0.5° 3° amplitude), and saccades that remained within a region measuring 6° across by 12° high.

Like for the upper quartile, the majority lay closer together meaning between 0.5 and 1 mm.

In 1985 the National Consumer Council published a survey showing that only 15% of respondents felt that the Law Society should be investigating complaints, and only 5% felt that if an independent body was created it should contain a solicitor majority, with 36% wanting equal representation of solicitors and lay people and 55% preferring a majority of lay people.

During this, the final weekend of the election campaign, the best hope for Democrats to retain their Senate majority lies along a narrow path.

Forested areas are unevenly distributed, with the majority lying to the east of a line from Bordeaux to the Luxembourg border.

Only a small portion of the Disi aquifer lies beneath Jordan, while the majority lies beneath Saudi Arabia.

Though Rove's promised "permanent Republican majority" lies in humiliating ruins, his and Bush's one secure legacy will be their demagogic exploitation of homophobia.

The sympathy of the Hutu majority lies firmly with the rebels, so there is little chance that the Tutsi-led army will ever destroy them.