Sentence examples for assured a majority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Peres's presidential candidacy was backed by Mr. Barak's One Israel Party and seemed assured a majority.

In Kansas, supporters of evolution were already assured a majority on the 10-member state board after a primary election earlier this year.

A senior member of the Kasich administration acknowledged in interviews that it pressed Republican leaders of the legislature — the House speaker and Senate president — to assure a majority of "yes" votes on the board.

But they cannot assure a majority for Mr Herzog, leaving him with just 56 seats.Mr Herzog thus needs a deal with the Joint List of Arab and communist groups that may get 13 seats.

When he sat down to divvy up the counties, Mr. Maze said, he made sure to keep the large suburban and conservatively leaning counties east of Los Angeles on his side of the border, assuring a majority of the population.

While garnering Stupak's personal vote will not assure a majority, his role in passage is unquestionable.

The next three judges up for re-election were Republican and the maneuver "would have assured a Republican majority for the foreseeable future," Van Duyn said.

With almost all the votes counted, the centre-left had a lead in the race for the lower house, the chamber of deputies, where it would be assured an outright majority under electoral rules.

His conservative coalition now seems assured a working parliamentary majority through 2016, which would end the trend of weak revolving-door governments, which saw six successive prime ministers over the past six years.

The President's managers declare that he is assured of a majority on the first ballot.

They were assured of a majority favouring "life after death" as the alternative sentence of the court.