Sentence examples for plurality for the from inspiring English sources

"I think the turnout in Philadelphia, where we hope to bring in a 250,000-vote plurality for the Gore-Lieberman ticket, is indispensable for Gore winning Pennsylvania and the presidency".

If the U.K.'s outmoded electoral machinery translates a narrow plurality for the Conservative Party (based on their getting roughly a third of the popular vote) into an absolute Tory majority in parliament, the changes will be slight.

According to BeerBoard, which monitors output from more than 50,000 North American draft lines, domestics still dominate but dipped below a plurality for the first time since probably anyone alive can remember.

Some saw Kentucky's 18,000-vote plurality for William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election as a sure sign that the state would vote Democratic in 1899.

There's not even a solid plurality for deportation among the most reliable Republican voters – born-again Christians.

Both the Hunter and Seattle cases, as "reinterpreted" by the plurality, stand for "the cloudy and doctrinally anomalous proposition" that state action risking a burden on racial minorities represents a denial of equal protection.

Although ninety per cent of the electorate went to the polls, and by a substantial plurality voted for the only significant opposition party, Hun Sen threatened to secede and go to war if the vote was not "corrected".

The article originally linked to a poll showing plurality support for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that was characterized as majority support.

A plurality called for the "more youthful" and the "more experienced" to share power, while over a quarter said, "I don't know". Adjusting for the age skew, and on the assumption that more of the older respondents prefer "older leadership," the data suggests that a majority of the population would prefer that Mohammed bin Salman succeed his father.

In his dissenting opinion, which was joined by Felix Frankfurter and Charles E. Whittaker, John Marshall Harlan faulted the plurality for a lack of judicial restraint for deciding a constitutional question that had not been properly briefed and argued.

He provided a healthy plurality for Mr. Pataki and preserved the party's incumbents, including a freshman assemblyman specifically targeted by the Democrats.