Sentence examples for have no majority from inspiring English sources

"We have no majority," he said.

Without Northern League support, he would have no majority.

But he added: "For the fifth time in a row they have said: 'Proceed, but with caution and humility.' Because we have no majority.

It will be up to the Lords, where the Tories have no majority, to consider how to take the committee's recommendations forward.

Osborne will now either have to get the proposal through a committee of MPs on which the Speaker sits – and the Tories have no majority – or a vote of the whole House of Commons.

The stakes If the Tories cannot form a coalition and have no majority, they might try minority government, perhaps propped up by a "confidence and supply" agreement with the Lib Dems and/or others.

But the Tories had no majority.

Legislative changes require consent of the upper house, where he has no majority.

Meanwhile, the Communists without whom the coalition has no majority in Parliament are getting truculent.

(Ronald Reagan wasn't unprepared, just ideologically insulated. And, God knows, he was elected. Bill Clinton had no majority, but, God knows, he cared).

The opposition parties could still block the bill in the Bundesrat, the upper house of Parliament, where the government has no majority.