Sentence examples for majority and a from inspiring English sources

It's enough to form a comfortable majority and a major increase from the 258 seats it won earlier in the year.

Bahrain has a Shiite majority and a Sunni royal family.

Gove made a moral distinction between a "hard-working majority" and a "vicious, lawless, immoral minority".

But then he had a slim majority and a fractious coalition.

Fidesz was elected with a crushing two-thirds majority and a mandate for radical change.

But Omagh has a Catholic majority and a Sinn Fein council chairman.

Mr Ravalomanana says he did win a majority, and a panel of judges agreed.

The Senate is enfeebled by its bare Democratic majority and a cozy relationship with mortgage industry campaign donors.

Sri Lanka has suffered decades of conflict between a largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority and a largely Hindu Tamil minority.

The Republicans hold a slim six-seat majority, and a few critical races could tip the balance either way.

A generation on, Rushdie's Britain of a white majority and a few designated ethnic minorities feels equally antiquated.