Sentence examples for expanded majorities from inspiring English sources

With their formal swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, the new members offer Democrats expanded majorities in both the House (257-178) and the Senate.

The bill was tabled after receiving little support from Congressional Republicans but is likely to have a better chance next year when Democrats hold expanded majorities on Capitol Hill and Mr. Obama is president.

The stalemate over Mr. Burris marred what otherwise should have been a day of revelry for Democrats, who seated their expanded majorities in both the House and Senate in preparation for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama on Jan . 20

These expanded majorities will be critical for helping pass Barack Obama's agenda into law so we can begin to restore the United States' standing in the world, reorient our foreign policy stance away from aggression and toward robust diplomacy and peace, and rejuvenate our economy to ensure that all Americans benefit from a rising tide, not just the executives at the top.

When the new Congress convenes in January, Republicans will have an expanded majority of 55 senators, leaving Democrats with little way to get their message across.

In local elections this month, voters gave an expanded majority in the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly to politicians who oppose the airfield and want to reduce the American military presence.

The outgoing coalition led by Mr Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), now 24 parties strong and rechristened the National Democratic Alliance, was re-elected with an expanded majority.

It was the first weekend of the new Congress, and Senate Democratic leaders insisted on a Sunday vote to signal that with their expanded majority they had less patience for efforts by Republicans to block their agenda.

Watching the Republicans glory in their new majority in the Senate and expanded majority in the House is hard to take for progressive Democrats.

With an expanded majority in the House, Speaker John A. Boehner is expected to take a similar approach, busying the chamber with votes on smaller-scale bills to cut regulations on business.

If you want to judge by the results in 2006, expanding majorities in Congress, in the House and the Senate, will be easier if the Democratic Party's candidates reject so-called "free trade" and pledge to embrace a sane approach to globalization and trade--not just because of the moral imperative but as a matter of electoral realities since even Republicans are opposed to so-called "free trade".