Sentence examples for assuring a majority from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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

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

With NYS just signing onto the NPV interstate compact, supporters are nearly 2/3 of the way to assuring that a majority (or plurality) vote will elect presidents as they do for governors, senators, congresspeople.

Trump's victory assures a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

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.

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