Sentence examples for majority left from inspiring English sources

The surprisingly severe narrowing of the government's working majority and the emergence of the Democratic Party as a major force, but still one far short of a majority, left the country strangely without any clear direction for change.

"Because the majority left Iquitos.

The court's majority left those rules in place, while signaling it might review them later.

He said he hoped the unlucky majority left feeling that they at least had had a chance to show their talent in front of a respectful panel.

Widely known as 'boat people', the majority left in the late 1970s, often not surviving the treacherous journey because their boats sank or were attacked by pirates.

"With the right [faction] machine having lost control of their majority, left and independent delegates must work together at conference to deliver the democratic changes Labor's future depends on," Byrne told Guardian Australia.

Importantly, it appears that neither of the two major parties will be able to procure an outright majority, leaving whoever prevails requiring the support, and perhaps needing to co-govern with, one or more of the smaller factions.

Instead, they merely held the House with a reduced majority, leaving them facing four more years of compromise.

But even though Allawi's group had won the most votes, it had not captured a majority, leaving both him and Maliki scrambling for coalition partners.

The Democrats complain that adding one seat would let the Republican majority leave most of their upstate seats intact despite a shift in population to the metropolis.

His departure cost county Democrats their one-vote majority, leaving the Legislature deadlocked until another Democrat, Kevan Abrahams, won a special election on Sept. 10 to fill the vacancy.