Sentence examples for majority to prevent from inspiring English sources
They are using rules that require a larger majority to prevent Republicans from offering proposals to lift a ban on drilling off much of the nation's coastline.
These were the safeguards offered by the Citizens United majority to prevent corruption and abuse, and in their absence, we desperately need a legal assessment more in line with the reality voters face every day... a tsunami of secret money from secret donors flooding our elections.
It took place in Warsaw and the deputies and senators in service of foreign powers declared it a confederated sejm (with decisions decided by the majority) to prevent liberum veto (the right of any deputy to force an immediate end to the current session and nullify any legislation that had already been passed) being used to stop it.
There are clear majorities to prevent both activities – 70% against public meetings and 57% against the publication of extremist books.
He also said that Jordan, with its Sunni majority, wished to prevent Iran, a nation of Shiites, from exerting undue influence in Baghdad.
Surveys of voters showed that the acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, fell short of the majority needed to prevent a second round of voting.
In the presidential contest the FA's candidate, former president Tabaré Vázquez (2005 10), received 47.8% of the vote, just shy of the outright majority necessary to prevent a runoff.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A scion of a powerful Colombian family comfortably won more votes than an eccentric former mayor of Bogotá in presidential elections on Sunday, but narrowly failed to get the majority needed to prevent a runoff election in June between the two men.
If the new majority tries to prevent school closures and starts rejecting charter applications willy-nilly, then I fear the worst.
Democrats used rules requiring a wider majority for approval to prevent Republicans from offering amendments on the floor that would embarrass Democrats in an election year.
Once the European Commission, the bloc's executive body, suggests sanctions for violating the rules, a country will need a weighted majority of nations to prevent them from being enforced.
