Sentence examples for majority shift from inspiring English sources

Our model gives Democrats much lower odds of taking the Senate than it did in mid-August, when the chance of a majority shift was 55percentt.

In Jokkmokk with an ethnic majority shift around the 1830s, a pronounced Sami excess infant mortality remains throughout the 19th century.

We believe that the parish of Jokkmokk is more representative of the Sami parishes in general, where an ethnic majority shift occurred around 1830, moving in a frontier wave from the south to the north.

In the parish of Föllinge, the ethnic majority shift came earlier: from the late 18th century, there were more non-Sami than Sami in the area, and the change accelerated so that at the end of the period there were almost 10 times as many Swedes as Sami.

While a remain majority would have left us with the status quo, the leave majority shifts the problems of unwinding 40 years of intertwined legislation back to our elected representives in parliament.

An agreement between Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, and the Democratic majority shifted about $6 billion, mostly in health care spending for the poor, from under the state's constitutional spending cap.

She could get her turn in the spotlight next year if the Senate majority shifts and Republicans turn to her office in an attempt to find rules that would allow them to repeal the health care law.

Over time, a majority shifted away from conviction, as jurors focused on the level of mental illness required for Mr. Tarloff to be held not responsible for his actions.

I suspect that for the vast majority, shifting the balance so that it was the father who wasn't being properly paid wouldn't make any difference (and would, in the many cases where he's the higher earner, make the family much worse off).

It matters because when the media pretend, or are fooled into believing, that the loudest and most extreme voices are representative of the majority, our conception of the majority shifts dramatically.

As American majorities shift and change in the near and far term, we should keep in mind that our diversity comes with the territory.