Sentence examples for majority drop from inspiring English sources

With a bitter partisan feud over taxes and spending playing out 5,000 miles away in Washington — a dispute in which every vote in Congress is being carefully counted — Senate Democrats can scarcely afford to have their 55-to-45 55-to-45 55-to-451.

The size of the problem came into sharper focus on election day when Putin's United Russia party saw its parliamentary majority drop from two-thirds to slightly more than half.

In 1988 Diouf's presidential majority dropped to 73 percent, and the PDS won 17 of the 120 parliamentary seats.

The share of the vote needed for a 151-seat majority will depend on how the overall result is divided between parties: if every party that runs actually gets into parliament, a 40% share would produce outright victory – but if lots of votes go to smaller parties that fail to clear the 3% entry barrier, the share needed for a majority drops.

They were wrong — the "moving" majority dropped to a minority.

The white electorate, while still a majority, dropped to 72% of the country as a whole, down from 74% four years ago, and 77% eight years ago.

"In my experience, the majority of DROP's have not been cost-neutral," said Joseph Esuchanko, the actuary hired by Houston to help it cope with its pension morass.

While the ANC remains assured of victory, its majority could drop below 60% for the first time, which may lead members to call for 71-year-old Zuma's head.

Knowing that the study's respondents with strong majority, would drop any form of local preferential bias to and apply loans and financing products to international ones would prove a worthy preparatory action for the forth coming revisions to the ASEAN banking competitive environment.

The overwhelming majority will drop out of school if they haven't already.

More than 160 million Americans made a New Year's resolution, but a majority will drop their resolutions within six months.