Sentence examples for formidable majority from inspiring English sources

A formidable majority of voters has set itself against joining in any near future.

Boehner now presided over a formidable majority; two months earlier, in the midterm elections, the G.O.P. expanded its control of the House by thirteen seats and captured the Senate by winning nine seats there.

He joked that when Joe Bruno, the formidable majority leader of the state Senate, invited him to dinner he accepted, but vowed to take a food-taster with him.New Yorkers elected Mr Spitzer, an Albany outsider, on a mandate to battle corruption and to clean up state affairs.

This decision was achieved with the votes of maybe 20percentt of the membership of the ASA, but it is still an irritant, and a reminder to many Israelis and those who support Israel in the US, which constitutes a formidable majority of American public opinion, that there still are some who under the guise of academic prestige act as agents of collective hatred.

The election of Mr. Obama and his formidable majorities in Congress, installed over the course of successive elections, was seen in some quarters of the Democratic Party as an ideological vindication — a sign that voters had judged rigid conservatism a failure and were at last ready to embrace a more expansive government.

This concise and accessible history reveals how these conservative leaders discovered a winning formula that enabled them to forge a powerful and formidable political majority.

Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, usually a reliable ideologue, recently said voting for Ryan's bill would put the Republicans' formidable House majority at risk.

The rising Trumpnami has placed the Republicans' once-formidable Congressional majority in jeopardy.

All this represents formidable barriers for the majority to use Uganda's banking system; their only option for their savings is the mattress – putting money away and hoping that it is not stolen or burnt.

In a state that has 196,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans and 140,000 more registered Independents than Democrats, Mr. Rowland, a fiscal conservative with moderate views on most social issues, has clearly built a formidable reputation among a clear majority of voters.

On the other hand, a Republican could transform the somewhat reliable 5-4 conservative majority into a formidable 7-2 conservative majority.