Sentence examples for handsome majority from inspiring English sources

They will control the House with a handsome majority of 242 to 193.

The party won back its heartland seat of Blaenau Gwent with a handsome majority.

Observers expect the ruling coalition to lose 30-40 seats but still keep a handsome majority (see article).

The handsome majority after 1966 could never be deployed to achieve the kind of fundamental reforms the left dreamed of.

Were it up to women, Mr Lokke Rasmussen would be crushed and Denmark would get its first female prime minister, with a handsome majority.

This time there was no open protest; and the voters, in a new plebiscite, accorded Napoleon a handsome majority of 97 percent.

The titanic struggle has shown American democracy in a dim light.In November 2008 Mr Obama won 53% of the popular vote, and the Democrats won handsome majorities in both chambers of Congress.

Kerry won some of his handsomest majorities in the fanciest of Fairfax's 99 precincts.

In his second term, he was elected with 82% of the vote, after the shock appearance of the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen in the run-off, and backed that up with a handsome parliamentary majority.

ON THE day his nomination was confirmed by a handsome (301-55) majofity of Russia's sulky deputies, the new prime minister thought it wise to clarify his real identity.

Here, after all, is a president who only just over a year ago won a handsome mandate: 53% of the popular vote and big majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.