Sentence examples for majority would pass from inspiring English sources

The House majority would pass to Republicans, who rejected the Dream Act as a reward to immigrant lawbreakers.

Mr. Hoyer predicted that the House, where Democrats have a significant majority, would pass an energy bill this year but that health care legislation might take longer.

The Republican House majority presumably would pass both resolutions.

It won't be much ― if it happens at all ― but the current thinking among Republicans on Capitol Hill is that if lawmakers once again fail to do anything to tighten gun laws, there could be a voter backlash that ushers in a Democratic majority that would pass an even more restrictive bill.

Democrats have seized on Mr. Issa's recent remarks -- including his hopes of getting power to subpoena the White House and a pledge that he wouldn't use it "to have corporate America live in fear" -- as evidence that a Republican majority would give big corporations a pass.

The new constitution proposes to move to a system of "double majority", under which a proposal would pass if it commanded the support of 50% of countries, representing 60% of the EU's population.

With a majority of the votes, the constitution would pass, unless it were opposed by a two-thirds majority in 3 of the country's 18 provinces.

Their purpose was to promise that, if Republicans won a majority in the coming elections, they would pass the bill.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said the extension would pass his chamber and promised to come up with a budget, four years late.

Our species existed for more than 100,000 years before the earliest signs of literacy, and another 5,000 years would pass before the majority of humans would know how to read and write.

The Assembly passed the bill at 9 32 tonight, by a vote of 139 to 5, and the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, said his house would pass it on Tuesday.