Sentence examples for blocking majority in the from inspiring English sources

While Mr Letta's centre-left party has a majority in the lower house, both Mr Berlusconi and Mr Grillo hold a blocking majority in the senate.

If that could be used to erode public support, it could also help opponents achieve a blocking majority in the parliament.

The accession of Croatia last month may help Germany build a blocking majority in the council of ministers.German carmakers know they will have to yield to tighter CO2 regulations.

He said Howard had won a blocking majority – 18 of the 36 state Senate seats – in 2001 and 2004.

A senior Sharon adviser said the prime minister's challenge now was to prevent any opponent from emerging who could summon a blocking majority of 61 votes in the 120-seat Parliament.

Mr Zardari's party, the Pakistan Peoples Party PPPP), is expected to gain a blocking majority.But in fact a coup now is unlikely.

That would make the inbuilt Tory blocking majority that Labour fears virtually impossible; even in its 1980s landslides, the party never won more than 46% of votes in England.

While the Canadian Parliament passed this solution under Bill C-393, it was then blocked the Conservative majority in the Canadian Senate.

Shortly after a mid-term election that made his Liberal Party block an outright majority in the Philippine Senate, President Aquino travelled to Seoul in October 2013 where he signed a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation with South Korea President Park Geun-Hye.

He argued that action was blocked by "a Democratic Majority in the Senate that's teamed up with the White House on a strategy of doing nothing -- all for the sake of trying to score political points and spread the blame for an economy that their own policies have cemented into place".

"There are a number of bipartisan bills that are being blocked by the current Democrat majority in the Senate for partisan reasons.