Sentence examples for majority to govern from inspiring English sources

"You don't need a two-thirds majority to govern decisively".

Paul Waugh on his blog on why David Cameron does not need a majority to govern.

The polls suggest that no party will obtain a sufficient majority to govern alone.

The election last week has forced these leaders of Sri Lanka's two dominant political parties, both from the country's ethnic Sinhalese majority, to govern together.

Mr Netanyahu is left with a slender majority to govern, but he is now potentially more vulnerable to pressure from the far-right members of his coalition.

In the turmoil, the Democratic Party, which had placed first in the February election but without a strong enough majority to govern, collapsed.

With both sides short of the majority needed to govern alone in Parliament, the candidates are scrambling for support to form a government.

"The first principle of our system," Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, insisted, is "that the majority is to govern".

The poll saw millions of voters deserting mainstream parties for hardline anti-austerity groups, leaving the New Democracy party far short of the majority required to govern alone.

The party is locked in a struggle with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose Cambodian People's Party won last year's election but failed to get the two-thirds majority required to govern alone.

The election in May saw millions of voters deserting mainstream parties for hardline anti-austerity groups, leaving the New Democracy party far short of the majority required to govern alone and failing to form a coalition.