Sentence examples for majority down to from inspiring English sources

"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.

Republicans have held the Senate for more than four decades, but with their majority down to a single seat, the fight this November is being closely watched.

Before resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March, Mr. Spitzer poured money from the state party into two special elections that whittled the Republican majority down to a single seat.

But with Labour's majority down to 66, he also knows he will have to do rather more persuading than he was used to when he was in his pomp at the Home Office.Nobody has a better moral claim to make the case for radical reform of IB than Mr Blunkett does.

Pressure to Cross Over With the margin of the Republican Senate majority down to a single seat after last week's special election victory for Democrats, both sides have been resorting to seduction, attempting to woo new members from across the aisle.

In 2010 the Conservatives took most of those marginals but failed to take Halifax as Labour clung on with a majority down to under 1,500.

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

Party managers hope many of those will be more obedient now that Labour's majority is down to 67.

With his majority now down to 152 out of 300 MPs, the vote is now on a knife edge.

But now the Republican majority is down to a single seat, provoking the most intense, expensive and sweeping campaign in years.

The leftists, in power with the small rightwing Independent Greeks party, have already seen their majority whittled down to a mere three in the 300-seat House.