Sentence examples for a majority lies from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

The second rationale of the majority lies in two parts.

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.

(It's pointing out that the majority lies with Ineos, and therefore the decision on its future lies there too).

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.

Appeal committees are set up by the admissions authorities, but are independent of them and include a majority of lay members.