Sentence examples for majority setting from inspiring English sources

The row over that plan has cost the government a reliable congressional majority, setting back promised economic reforms.

In Oklahoma's gubernatorial primary, voters narrowed crowded fields in both parties but failed to give any candidate a majority, setting up two Sept. 18 runoff elections.

But she fell short of claiming an outright majority, setting up a runoff against Representative J. Gresham Barrett, a four-term congressman.

But another legislative gambit of the new majority — setting a House vote on repeal of the health care law — illustrates the predicament Mr. Boehner is in.

The novelty of the design allows me to study the extent to which voting methods defeat the Condorcet loser and elect the Condorcet winner in a repeated-game, divided majority setting.

Norman J. Ornstein, a scholar on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, said the spectacle of a floor fight over the speakership would do lasting damage to the Democratic majority, setting a narrative that any leader would be powerless to counter.

Then the White House and the Senate majority set exceptional limits on the scope and timing of the subsequent FBI review.

More than one-fourth of the country is wooded, with the majority set aside as public property.

By zipping through their top bills in the first few weeks, leaders of the new majority set themselves up for a lull while new committee chairmen put together other legislation and begin oversight hearings on the Bush administration's performance.

The conservative justices in the majority set aside their concern for states' rights, for judicial restraint, for limitations on standing, for their usual insistence that claims raised at the Supreme Court level have been fully addressed by the lower courts.

On October 6th Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority, set tongues wagging with an unexpected manoeuvre that limited the minority's ability to demand symbolic votes on doomed amendments.