Even if there had been a small majority in favour, the DUP would have exercised a special veto drawn up under devolution.
In a series of recent opinion polls, support for gay marriage in Ireland has stood at around 70% of the electorate although among older voters there is a small majority who will vote no.
However, this is a small majority which, say correspondents, means he may be vulnerable to pressure and potential revolts from his backbenches.
"There is a small majority in the House that continues to support these programs," said Nathan Facey, deputy chief of staff to Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), who sponsored the solar energy amendment.
Inkster is a small, majority black suburb west of Detroit.
There was a small majority of public over private and third sector provision and 60% of respondents were located in Scotland.
The probability is high when the median class demands relatively low levels of redistribution and when it is a small majority (we show in the online supporting materials that the asymmetry result extends to a continuum of voters and any finite number of income classes).
The two likeliest outcomes in that year's general election are a small Labour majority or a small Conservative majority (coalitions are never likely in Britain, despite what everybody in Westminster seems to believe, and even less so in 2015 because the Liberal Democrats will probably lose seats).
They are, by a small majority, male.
The data show that the paper that gets the 'best paper' prize, is rarely the most cited paper; is, in a small majority of cases, cited more than the runner up papers and is, in most cases, cited more than the median paper.
