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

There is only a wafer-thin majority of error between our present condition and British inflation of 50% and 100% a year … that is why it is of such paramount importance for us to come to grips with this present inflation".

It has a wafer-thin majority in the Senate.

Meanwhile, his coalition splintered and as a result was on a wafer-thin majority.

So the combined MDC, which has a history of quarrelling, will have a wafer-thin majority.

Elections in 2012 propelled the Muslim Brotherhood into the presidential palace by a wafer-thin majority.

The Coalition has emerged from the election with a wafer-thin majority in the House of Representatives.

That's a big call when your government holds office with a wafer thin majority relying on an independent member.

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.

In the west London marginal of Ealing Central and Acton, the Labour incumbent, Rupa Huq, was told on Saturday by local Green activists that they will give her a free run as she seeks to defend her wafer-thin majority of 274 from a Tory challenge.

But as Mr. Gumo's supporters jubilantly marched through the streets of Nairobi, Mr. Moi's wafer-thin majority in Parliament got a little thicker.

Solihull's Lib Dem candidate, Lorely Burt, was visibly upset when her wafer-thin majority of 175 disappeared in a Tory landslide.