Sentence examples for achieving a majority from inspiring English sources

For activists seeking board representation, an activist win is defined as the activist achieving a majority of its objectives.

The comments came a week after Democrats won 32 of 62 seats in the Senate, achieving a majority for the first time in more than 40 years.

But if Mr. Romney is fairly close to achieving a majority of delegates and none of the other candidates are, he will probably win the nomination, and probably before the convention.

The two largest political parties in the 601-member Parliament, the Maoists and the smaller Nepali Congress, again fielded rival candidates, and again, leaders of the other political parties claimed neutrality and prevented either rival candidate from achieving a majority.

Last year Japan came tantalisingly close to achieving a majority, only to be let down by poorer member countries that either failed to turn up at the meeting in South Korea or were barred from voting because they had not paid their fees.

With no party achieving a majority in the House of Commons, Clegg and the Liberal Democrats subsequently formed a coalition with David Cameron and his Conservative Party (Britain's first coalition since World War II), with Clegg securing the post of deputy prime minister.

HONG KONG — The low quality of debate between Australia's major political parties appears to have been one reason why neither achieved a majority in Saturday's election.

Neither major political party in Israel (the Likud and Labor Parties) could achieve a majority vote in the Knesset without support from the more religious parties.

That would achieve a majority of two.

Stalin had now achieved a majority in the Politburo.

The Concertación hopes to achieve a majority in both houses.