Sentence examples for close majority from inspiring English sources

Ms. Martin won in a close, majority decision, although in a YouTube clip from the match, she appears to be taking a beating.

"The reality is that Newt was trying to hold together a very close majority," said Bob Walker, a former Republican congressman who remains a close ally of Mr. Gingrich, "and that meant sometimes you had to do things that were popular across the whole conference, and not just the things that a handful of conservatives wanted".

"What we don't want to do is have a disrespect for each other's opinions and I think that's what happened really when the Maastricht treaty was being debated in Westminster, when there was incredibly close majorities and that was a damaging time for the party.

No other counties in the U.S. with similarly dismal accessibility ratings suddenly felt so pressed to comply with the ADA that they tried to close the majority of their voting sites immediately before a major midterm election.

Mesi got his expected victory, but it was unexpectedly close, a majority 10-round decision over Monte Barrett of Queens in which he was knocked down in the seventh round and had his left eye completely closed.

We would be left with no option but to close the majority of our care and support services, in the face of a total annual loss of £2.83m of rental income.

Popular support for gay marriage is weaker, which suggests that Mr Obama's careful middle way (he supports civil unions but not marriage for gays) may also be close to majority opinion.

After drawing nationwide media attention, condemnations from two candidates for governor, and threats to sue over racist voter suppression, the Randolph County elections board on Friday reversed their decision to close the majority of the polling precincts.

In addition, the company said it would close a majority-owned British unit, with 64 employees.

After this transaction closes, the majority of the Mexican banking system will be owned by non-Mexican investors.

As Mr. DeLay said last week, "The closer the majority, the easier it is to hold people together".