Sentence examples for comfortable majority of from inspiring English sources

Together they command a comfortable majority of 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset, Israel's parliament.

The coalition holds a comfortable majority of 139 seats in the 217-member body.

And if it wins all 100, it will have a comfortable majority of 86 seats.

With a comfortable majority of 176 in the 300-seat Parliament, the coalition is expected to win the vote.

Labor gained a majority of 179 seats in Parliament in the May 1997 election, and its current poll numbers would still translate into a comfortable majority of 127.

Although the vote was the biggest Tory rebellion, the government won a comfortable majority of 180 after the late Labour leader John Smith decided to abstain.

Add to that research by the pressure group Class showing that comfortable majorities of Tory voters in 2010 support left-of-centre policies, and YouGov polling showing that 41% of them are (to one degree or another) open to voting Labour in the future.

Of the president's Islamist allies, Mr. Shahin said, "I think they thought they were on their way to really secure some kind of comfortable majority for the constitution, which did not happen".

AS RECENTLY as January, Paul Martin, Canada's prime minister, was so confident of winning a comfortable majority for his Liberal Party that he was talking of a ten-year programme of reform.

But even traditionalists were shaking their heads in disbelief when, within hours of winning a comfortable majority for a third term, a gaggle of 20-30 maLabournt Labour MPs started to campaign for Tony Blair's dismissal.Thus when Mr Blair duly met his new and re-elected MPs behind closed doors on May 11th, expectations for a bruising encounter were high.

In the parliamentary elections of June 2007 Sarkozy's UMP did less well than expected but still well enough to provide a comfortable majority for the new government of François Fillon, whom Sarkozy had appointed as prime minister just after assuming the presidency.