Sentence examples for garner majority from inspiring English sources

But since a film must now garner majority support via second and perhaps third choice rankings, it now has a viable shot at winning -- if it can attract enough of those votes.

Kentuckians flocked to the "new" party en masse, and the legislative elections of August 1834 saw the party garner majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

A more detailed question about Obama's "adjustment" to a rule about "religiously-affiliated employers" still garners majority support (54%).

Few ever garner a majority vote.

The prosecutor, Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former fighter pilot and Navy officer, failed to garner the majority of the 100-member House of Delegates that was required to secure the judgeship.

On Tuesday, Mr. Berlusconi's government hit its weakest point yet when it failed to garner a majority on a technical vote on last year's budget review.

A counterproposal by the government and center-right parties won support from only 46 percent of voters in the referendum and failed to garner a majority in any canton.

The hope is that one position will garner a majority of votes, which has not happened with the two previous referendums.

Mr. Kuchma has been unable to garner a majority coalition in Parliament since elections to the legislature last spring, which would pave the way for carrying out his policies.

Ricardo Salgado, the chief executive of Banco Espirito Santo, Portugal's biggest bank, is expected to offer his resignation as a director of NYSE Euronext after failing to garner a majority of shareholder votes.

According to the Party's rules, the nomination will go to whoever can garner a majority of the delegates at the Convention in Denver, regardless of how many voters or caucus-goers sent them there, or didn't.