Sentence examples for bare majority of the from inspiring English sources

In 2000, Mr. Bush won a bare majority of the voters here, 50.2percentto47.1percentcent for Al Gore.

A bare majority of the Syrian refugees are women, as FactCheck.org noted in September, when Ben Carson and Scott Walker raised similar alarms.

According to one fairly typical recent poll, conducted for the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, only a bare majority of the public favors the United Nations' authorizing an invasion as opposed to a "strengthened inspection process".

In a Washington Post/ABC poll published last week, only a bare majority of the American public -- 53 percent -- reports having a favorable impression of the F.B.I., down nearly 30 points from six years ago.

In addition, the man who administered the oath of office to Mr. Bush just after noon, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, had voted with the bare majority of the Supreme Court last month in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively ended Mr. Gore's legal contest of the returns from the polls in Florida.

In 2013, a bare majority of the US supreme court gave the green light to North Carolina by striking down a provision of the Voting Rights Act that required states, such as North Carolina, that had a history of discrimination to preclear electoral law changes with the Department of Justice.

That's an 11-point swing over Forum's last poll, which was conducted for VICE two weeks prior, when only a bare majority of those who were aware of the bill opposed it.

"But a bare majority of this court," Justice Baxter wrote, "not satisfied with the pace of democratic change, now abruptly forestalls that process and substitutes, by judicial fiat, its own social policy views for those expressed by the People themselves".

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them -- with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the "reasoned judgment" of a bare majority of this Court -- we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them with each decision that is unabashedly not based on law, but on the "reasoned judgment" of a bare majority of this Court we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.

Even if Malcolm Turnbull's Coalition wins a bare majority of 76, the prime minister has spent the past two days shoring up support from four of the five key minor parties and independents in the lower house.