Sentence examples for given a majority from inspiring English sources

In 1907 the settlers were given a majority of seats.

"It doesn't seem to be a tolerant country, given a majority voted to leave the EU.

Beginning in 1903, the Javanese were admitted to a steadily increasing part in local government, and in 1925 Indonesians were given a majority in the volksraad ("people's council").

* The board members were given a majority vote of confidence by council to continue in their various roles * Martyn Thomas's continuing as acting CEO was endorsed by council.

That is why The Economist hoped that, when Germany's voters went to the polls on September 18th, they would choose Angela Merkel's centre-right opposition over Gerhard Schröder's centre-left government.Instead, a divided electorate has given a majority to nobody.

Voters in Spain's Catalonia region have given a majority to parties seeking Catalan independence.

Preliminary results gave a majority to the successor to the country's Communist Party.

The results gave a majority (40.4percentt) of the 41.7 million votes cast to the Socialists Revolutionaries.

About one-third of the time, your random choice of seven will give a majority of black socks.

Her own Sindh province, however, paid due tribute to her by giving a majority to PPP in the provincial assembly.

That gives a majority to Lavalas, which had only one of the eight Senate seats not being contested.