Sentence examples for modest majority from inspiring English sources

A modest majority (52percentt) believes that the detainees the United States is holding at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being treated fairly.

The prime minister, who has a modest majority, will move to entrench the Tories' position by pressing ahead with radical boundary changes to overcome what is seen as a bias in favour of Labour.

Yet the Tories dramatically out-performed expectations, winning a modest majority and more individual votes than any party before or since.Are the "shy Tories" about to cause their biggest upset yet?

"At this point, the American public would generally agree with Obama that wealth should ideally be more evenly distributed — and a modest majority, consisting mainly of Democrats and independents, appears to support the idea of bringing about that redistribution through heavier taxes on the rich," Frank Newport, Gallup's editor-in-chief, noted.

Mrs Kelly herself, who represents Manchester's Bolton West constituency with a modest majority of around 2,000, could face a similar fate at the next general election.Opponents of the scheme and the Conservatives want a referendum before the cordons go up.

Republicans continue to maintain a modest majority in the Florida state Senate.

Modest majorities also said they favored dumping some major individual weapons programs, including the costly F-35 jet fighter, a new long-range strategic bomber, and construction of a new aircraft carrier.

Huge majorities cited jobs and the economy; sizable majorities cited health care costs and entitlement reform; more modest majorities cited fighting poverty and reforming the tax code.

For even a modest working majority, they must double their number of seats.

It was, said Emily Maitlis, the "Basildon moment", recalling that key result in 1992 which helped put John Major back into Downing Street with a modest working majority in the teeth of poll ratings which had consistently pointed the other way.

The new legislator was escorted to the bar of the Senate by Sherman; his swearing-in helped cement a modest Republican majority.