Sentence examples for hostile majority from inspiring English sources

Nixon still faces a hostile majority in Congress.

But the hostile majority on the Supreme Court and the absence of a vocal pro-integration constituency make integration's revival a near impossibility.

A hostile majority could at worst combine to pass a vote of no-confidence in Mr Putin, though that would be risky given his popularity, especially if the war in Chechnya were still going well.

When Bork made his case before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he faced a hostile majority of Democrats, including its new chairman, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware.

It is to guard them against becoming prey to the unscrupulous and the more powerful, against hostile majorities, and against tyrannical government.

The protection of individual rights has taken two principal forms: first, the protection of liberty in the face of governmental oppression; second, the protection of individual rights against hostile majorities and minorities.

American presidents, who struggle with hostile majorities in Congress or assertive Supreme Courts, have envied the relatively untrammeled power wielded by, say, Winston Churchill during World War II, or Margaret Thatcher when she initiated free-market reforms that rejuvenated Britain's economy.

The Legal Services Corporation has accepted the restriction as an alternative to being driven out of business by a hostile Republican majority in Congress.

Weiner accuses me of being "fundamentally hostile to majority rule," indeed, to "politics itself".

He was an advocate for blacks and did much to advance their status in the state, but was unable to enact much of his reform agenda because of a hostile Democratic majority in the state legislature.

The president faces an unremittingly hostile Republican majority in the Congress that benefited from obstructing everything he sought to do in his first two years, and that cowers in fear of its aroused right-wing base.