Sentence examples for extraordinary majority from inspiring English sources

Johnson was an extraordinary politician, and he was a really extraordinary majority leader of the U.S. Senate.

Although technically possible (the PRD has fallen just short of taking the one-third of congressional seats required to block constitutional amendments), getting the extraordinary majority required for important tax and labour reforms, and particularly energy reforms, looks extremely difficult.

Between them, the two parties currently have 503 out of 630 seats in the Bundestag, an extraordinary majority that means that they can, and do, ignore the opposition left and Greens.

Nor do we decide whether a State may, consistently with the Constitution, require extraordinary majorities for the election of public officers.

Thangam Debbonaire represents the constituency with an extraordinary 37,336 majority.

An extraordinary 85percentt majority of votes is required to make changes to this allotment of financing and voting power.

Medicare and the Great Society programs were passed by a Congress with extraordinary Democratic majorities, pushed by a Democratic president.

They entrusted me to be their President and they created extraordinary Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress because they knew the country could not withstand four more years of the same.

I find it extraordinary that the majority is prepared to hold in essence that juror Fagan was impartial beyond a reasonable doubt.

Mr. Beebe, a Democrat, lobbied extensively for the bill, approval of which required an extraordinary three-fourths majority vote in both chambers of the General Assembly.

With some extraordinary nitpicking:[T]he majority found that there is a "clear trend beginning in 1966 to label this term as offensive".