Sentence examples for needs majority from inspiring English sources

For a democratic union of two countries to survive, it needs majority support in both countries.

Blacks now wants to press on with a fundraising, but hopes to restructure it so it only needs majority approval rather than 75%, thus avoiding a repetition of the rejection.

The board only needs majority approval to remove the 19th Street bridge from Orange County's master plan for arterial highways, where it's been assigned since the 1950s.

In politics, you need majority support or at least a plurality to be successful.

Foreign Minister Antonio Segni, 70, a Catholic conservative, received 354 votes, 92 short of a needed majority.

Under the ATP's voting system, Kermode needed majority support (at least two votes) from each camp to continue.

The leading challenger, Marc Ravalomanana, fell short of the needed majority, and a runoff was scheduled between him and the incumbent, Didier Ratsiraka.

The government got 96 votes of the 195 deputies present in the 200-seat legislature, two short of a needed majority.

"We don't need majority ownership to work with the banks," he said, arguing that federal agencies have enough supervisory power to nurse banks back to full health.

But at 12 50 this morning, the Senate voted 22-12 vote for the override, falling two votes shy of the needed majority.

(Approval can require just a board vote, or may also need majority support from the homeowners -- it depends on state rules and the goal of the assessment).