Sentence examples for majority down from inspiring English sources

The ruling party's majority, down from 66%, was the smallest it has achieved in the five multiracial elections held since 1994.

The Tory idea is that you keep the majority down and let a few rise; a socialist idea should be that the whole population rises".

But under a new proportional system, its four-point lead over Pasok gave it only a four-seat parliamentary majority, down from 30 in 2004.The opposition is likely to be a lot more vociferous than it was during Mr Karamanlis's first term.

And where most of the few wingnuts present, finding discretion the better part of valor, confine their opposition to muted mutterings rather than raucous rants that might bring the fury of the liberal majority down upon them.

Today, Democrats have a 54-45 majority, down one — too close to fifty, but still near enough to a filibuster-stopping sixty to make each additional vote valuable.

"I'd set a target of knocking Michael's majority down to under 10,000 and on the night I still thought Michael would hold it.

Genes for carbohydrate, lipid metabolism, proteolysis, signal transduction, cytoskeleton, vesicle traffic were for the vast majority down-regulated.

In the "stress response" category 8% and 14% of differentially expressed genes were observed in 'PS' and 'Pat 81' 1 DPI, respectively, with the majority down-regulated.

A number of genes involved in collagen synthesis were differentially expressed with the overwhelming majority down-regulated in weaned animals, both in relation to control calves and the pre-weaning baseline.

And their House majority is down to a mere two seats.

Most of my generation who are more entitled than the majority looked down on everyone else.