Sentence examples for paper-thin majority from inspiring English sources

Because the government has a paper-thin majority in the legislature, it would need the opposition to go along.

The latest polls show that the current coalition of her Christian Democrats and its junior partner the Free Liberals (FDP) have a paper-thin majority.

But it has won Republican sighs of relief in Washington, where the party's leaders fret over preserving their paper-thin majority in the House of Representatives.

To Mr. Bush's great advantage, Republicans reclaimed a paper-thin majority in the Senate and widened their majority in the House of Representatives in the November elections.

Even with the paper-thin majority they expect to have on opening day, they could have muscled through rules allowing them to stack committees with Republicans.

And given the coalition's paper-thin majority after the Democratic Left's departure, New Democracy's far right now has carte blanche to express its views unchecked.

The State Senate's paper-thin Democratic majority is barely functioning — questions were raised last week about whether Democrats have been trying to shake down union leaders for campaign contributions in return for influence on the state budget.

The coalition's majority in the Bundesversammlung is paper-thin.

Slice paper-thin.

Slice paper-thin, vertically.

Their skin was paper-thin.