Sentence examples for a paper-thin majority from inspiring English sources

Because the government has a paper-thin majority in the legislature, it would need the opposition to go along.

The latest polls show that the current coalition of her Christian Democrats and its junior partner the Free Liberals (FDP) have a paper-thin majority.

To Mr. Bush's great advantage, Republicans reclaimed a paper-thin majority in the Senate and widened their majority in the House of Representatives in the November elections.

That was a clear reference to a recent ruling in which a paper-thin majority of the judges ordered the state to set up an independent anticorruption unit.

Despite a paper-thin majority in parliament, and a deeply divided party, it pioneered reforms in healthcare that have been taken further since, it oversaw an economic recovery and boom, it followed a policy on the European Union that kept Britain out of the euro while persuing the strategic goal of eastern enlargement, and it presided over that historic fall in crime.

That a paper-thin majority of GOP voters don't want to see Trump brought down isn't exactly a ringing endorsement, of course.

Mr Fogh Rasmussen's paper-thin majority, plus the tensions within his coalition and with Ms Kjaersgaard, suggest that he will have a troubled government.

But it has won Republican sighs of relief in Washington, where the party's leaders fret over preserving their paper-thin majority in the House of Representatives.

Even with the paper-thin majority they expect to have on opening day, they could have muscled through rules allowing them to stack committees with Republicans.

And given the coalition's paper-thin majority after the Democratic Left's departure, New Democracy's far right now has carte blanche to express its views unchecked.

Payn (South) made a paper-thin one-spade overcall.