Sentence examples for majority of one half from inspiring English sources

Having been in two hung parliaments and another with a majority of one, half of my 22 years as an MP were spent around governments who did not have a convincing majority.

"Given America's separation of powers," Luce writes, "the Tea Party needs only a majority of the majority of one half of one branch of government to have a pretty good shot at ensuring nothing significant happens in Washington… in light of such a low bar, and given its organisational prowess, it is hard to see a neat end to the Tea Party's 'tyranny of the minority' in the near future".

With the Democrats holding a majority in one half of Congress, they'll be able to block GOP priorities, turning the legislative branch into a quagmire where little gets done even as they pass their own mostly symbolic bills.

From the majority of the samples, one half of the filter with the preserved phytoplankton was used for DNA extraction, from ten samples only one quarter of the filter was used, and from three samples (600 mL from different depths, 7 December 1977) the phytoplankton of the complete filter was used for DNA extraction.

The Commission may, by a vote of two-thirds majority of the votes cast, provided that such a majority is more than one half of all Members of the Commission, adopt and amend it own Rules of Procedure, which shall be consistent with the General Rules of the Organization.

Collaboration with authors from more than one institute is in the majority, which covers more than one half of the figures.

The etiology of liver disease in over one half of patients in both groups was secondary to alcohol, with an overwhelming majority of these patients actively drinking.

While you never know what you're going to get in a cryptic clue, the majority use one of half a dozen or so tricks to disguise their intent.

Majority of the medical staff (85%) and little over one half of the patients (56%) had heard or read about the Law on Patient's Rights (p < 0.001).

[ 3] The majority of admissions (72%) are unplanned, [ 4] and around one half of CHF patients die suddenly rather than dying of progressive heart failure.

Yeltsin had won a plurality in the first two rounds, but failed to win the required majority of 531, one more than half the membership of 1,060.