Sentence examples for knife-edge majority from inspiring English sources

Looking back to Woolas's knife-edge majority of 103 (0.2%) in May, which an election court overturned in November because of the leaflet lies, she originally considered the Lib Dems a shoo-in.

In order to secure the allegiance of Jewish Home to the new government, which has a knife-edge majority of just 61 out of 120 seats, Netanyahu eventually conceded the Justice Ministry post to the pro-settlement rival party.

Netanyahu has little room to maneuver, as the government in its present form holds a knife-edge majority of just 61 out of 120 seats in the Knesset — the Israel parliament — giving backbenchers plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard.

His decision was hardly a surprise: with a knife-edge 310 majority, won with the support of undergraduates, Wright had topped the list for the National Union of Students' "decapitation" strategy.

May's decision enraged pro-EU Tories, who then rebelled against her in what became a series of knife-edge votes, slashing her majority to just three in one case.

But boundary changes had squeezed her already slender majority into a "notional' knife-edge of just 1,500.

It should be a knife-edge vote.

British opinion is on a knife-edge.

We're always on this knife-edge".

Several results were on a knife-edge.

Every performance is knife-edge stuff.