Sentence examples for a shaky majority from inspiring English sources

Obama, a habitual seeker of the center ground with little experience of running anything and a shaky majority in the Senate, was never going to morph into Roosevelt.

"Sometimes he has assigned the opinions to himself, but more important are the cases in which he gave up the privilege of writing the opinion in landmark cases in order to secure a shaky majority".

Democrats, who appear to still hold a shaky majority, would also be wise to enact some of the procedural changes endorsed in April by a few reform-minded colleagues, including strengthening the role of committees and encouraging floor debates, which are now a rarity.

"It would be foolish of us as members of the Legislature to abdicate our responsibilities," said Senator John L. Sampson of Brooklyn, the leader of the Senate Democrats, who hold a shaky 32-to-30 32-to-30 32-to-30

The battle over how to close the deficit this year is merely setting the stage for a far more bitter fight likely to erupt next year, pitting the governor against a fractious and rebellious State Senate, where Democrats hold a shaky 32-to-30 32-to-30 32-to-30

As president, she has powers of patronage to tempt all but the most steadfastly hostile MPs.But her shaky majority, if she manages to put one together, could boost the influence of Tamil parties sympathetic to the Tigers.

We have a progressive President, a strong House majority, and a shaky but real Senate majority poised to do business.

With some councillors for both the main two parties on shaky majorities, we could see some significant change.

It has a big parliamentary majority, where Welfare was in a shaky coalition.

He has smaller, shakier majorities in Congress, he has his own passion (and Hillary's), and he has the threat of a veto, which is designed as much to discipline his own party's legislators as to intimidate the Republicans.

IT IS 25 years since conflict broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority region inside Azerbaijan, and 19 years since a shaky ceasefire came into effect.