Sentence examples for alternative majority from inspiring English sources

Mr Napolitano is widely understood to be set against using his constitutional powers to dissolve parliament and call new elections, and could ask Mr Letta to try to form an alternative majority in parliament.

It means that whenever a government depended on Scottish MPs for its majority, as could occur if Labour were narrowly elected in 2015, there would be a UK majority – Labour – for non-devolved matters such as foreign affairs and economics, but an alternative majority for devolved matters.

He certainly didn't trust the dissenters, as he clearly instructed his law clerks to begin working on an alternative majority opinion (the final product was too polished and too long to have been written at the last minute).

Talks will begin on whether an alternative parliamentary majority can be found to support a new Letta cabinet.

Returning to Rome from Naples (SUNday)on Sunday night before a crucial meeting with Letta, president Giorgio Napolitano reiterated his desire to find an alternative parliamentary majority for a Letta government.

Letta, whose allies are trying to see if an alternative parliamentary majority can be found to enable him to continue as Democratic party (PD PMM, said he hoped part of the People of Freedom party (PdL) might be prepared to go against its leader.

Condorcet's contemporary and co-national Jean-Charles de Borda (1733 1799) defended a voting system that is often seen as a prominent alternative to majority voting.

That said, Jordan is just as likely to emerge in the next few months as a conservative alternative for majority leader after the midterms.

But it's not impossible to imagine, as constitutional experts concede, such conventions being overridden in a social and political crisis – for instance where parties were fracturing and alternative parliamentary majorities could be formed.

Mr. Bush has political alternatives, Republican majorities in both houses of the Florida Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives.

If he fails, the opposition parties will have to produce an alternative one commanding majority support.