Sentence examples for a thin majority of from inspiring English sources

At the end of last year, a thin majority of Talecris common stock was owned by Cerberus-Plasma Holdings, which also held all management rights to the company.

Despite the unprecedented turnout at Tuesday's rally, recent opinion polls show that only a thin majority of Catalans favors full independence.

Though some surveys show that a thin majority of people in the United States support same-sex marriage, the issue — like abortion — ignites deep passions and, like abortion, will eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court.

A thin majority of people say that the war isn't fighting.

Many authors remain unconvinced that they support externalism; in fact, although externalism, for decades, has been regarded as firm orthodoxy, a recent (2009) poll by PhilPapers suggests that, these days, only a thin majority (51.1%) of analytic philosophers "accept" or "lean toward" externalism (20% endorsed internalism while 29% gave one of the "other" responses).

McGowan holds the seat on a wafer thin majority of just 0.3%, and will face a battle from Liberal party stalwart Sophie Mirabella – who McGowan unseated in the 2013 poll – in the upcoming federal election.

But, united in grief, the chavistas rallied, cries of "We are all Chavez" rang through the streets of Caracas and, in the end, Maduro beat his rival, Henrique Capriles Radonski, by a razor thin majority of 1.5percentt.

Parliament, where the center-left has a thin majority, will then hold a vote of confidence.

So members of his own right-wing coalition, which has a thin majority, would have to push him out.

Finally, depending on the election's outcome, you may be part of the thin majority of voters who must awaken on Wednesday and acknowledge, "I have done this and I will take responsibility for it".

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.