Sentence examples for obtaining a majority from inspiring English sources

Sweden faces political impasse after an inconclusive election, with no party obtaining a majority.

For Prime Minister Stephen Harper, obtaining a majority was the overriding focus of his campaign.

Second, consider the fact that Miliband was elected as leader without obtaining a majority of his parliamentary party colleagues.

Cruz is currently the only candidate besides Trump who has a mathematical possibility of obtaining a majority of delegates on the first ballot at July's Republican convention.

And they set the bar at him obtaining a majority or a near-majority of delegates on Super Tuesday, and he achieved that as well.

Former presidents Julio María Sanguinetti of the ruling Colorado Party and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the Blanco Party expressed interest in running, but both faced a daunting task in light of polls that showed the leftist Broad Front Progressive Encounter coalition obtaining a majority or near majority behind its leader, Tabaré Vázquez.

And even without activist pressure, obtaining a majority-of-the-minority vote is not always easy Dell failed to win a majority-of-the-minority vote at its first shareholders meeting to approve its 2013 management buyout.

To obtain a majority, a party needs to win three hundred and twenty-six seats.

Mr. Hamon finished third, and because no candidate obtained a majority, the runoff was held Friday.

Needing three hundred and twenty-six seats to obtain a majority in the House of Commons, the Conservatives ended up about twenty short.

The Bolsheviks obtained a majority in the Soviets of Petrograd and Moscow.