Sentence examples for effective majority from inspiring English sources

Last year, the Kremlin's anointed legislative bloc, dubbed Unity, absorbed a rival bloc, Fatherland, and took effective majority control of the Parliament.

But if they can't reach the effective majority of 323, then it falls to Miliband to assemble a government that can.

Mr. Hollande's ministers and his party defended him, and he remains securely in power, with another four years to his term and an effective majority in Parliament.

Because Vice-Presidents cast the decisive votes on matters where the Senate finds itself in a fifty-fifty tie, the Democrats need a net gain of four seats to have an effective majority.

The PRI has recovered — with an effective majority in the lower house of Congress and in state offices — through its rivals' mistakes, said Daniel Lund, a Mexico City pollster and political analyst.

What Labour needs most is a truthful analysis of modern times that provides the party with a general cast of mind – so much more important than tablets of stone – which can guide it towards winning an effective majority amid difficult trends for traditional centre-left parties in most of the developed world.

And with effective majorities in both houses of Parliament, Mr. Hollande and his government should be able to defeat various efforts by opponents to kill or amend the bill.

The art (or science, increasingly) of politics is combining effective majorities across various issues, while minimizing the perception of the minorities as being on the losing side.

"In effect, other than Republicans now controlling the committees, you've been seeing an effective conservative majority for the past couple of years," Neil Berch, an associate professor of political science at West Virginia University, told HuffPost.

That reduces the Socialist government's effective parliamentary majority to just a handful.

Asked what would help them be more effective, the majority had one straightforward proposal: give them enough administrative support so they could actually work on improving the schools.