Sentence examples for plurality over from inspiring English sources

In 1960 Suffolk voted for Nixon over Kennedy; in 1964 it gave Johnson a wide margin over Goldwater; in 1968 it gave Nixon the largest plurality over Humphrey of any county in the country.

"He is likely to lead the ticket with a huge plurality over his Republican opponent, and if that isn't helping those further down the line, I don't know what is".

Anchored in the Democratic column by Newark and Jersey City, those two counties gave Mr. Corzine a 153,000-vote plurality over Representative Bob Franks, who lost to him by less than half of that, or 71,000 votes, in the rest of the state.

Nor did the California recall have the undemocratic taint of the 2000 Presidential election, in which, on top of Al Gore's half-million-vote plurality over George W. Bush, left-of-center candidates outpolled right-of-center ones, fifty-one to forty-nine per cent.

In District 7, two-term incumbent Richard Vladovic maintained a clear plurality over Lydia Gutierrez, claiming 56% of the vote.

But then, why reduce mass expressions to plural reference if one holds that water or a water plurality is something over and above those water molecules, yet denies that the lion plurality is something over and above those lions?

A former mayor, senator and vice president, Mr. Estrada was elected with an unusually large plurality in May 1998, over an uninspiring and fragmented field of opponents.

(The largest plurality of justices over all, 44, attended no law school, since one could practice law in early days without a degree).

How uncomfortable you are about this probably depends on how traditionally leftwing you are, but the broader point is that crowdfunding prioritises isolationism over plurality, and that can affect the kind of art that reaches us.

An orderly election on March 6 , 1966 gave Julio César Méndez Montenegro, a law professor and the candidate of the moderate Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario; PR), an unexpectedly large plurality of votes over the candidate of the military regime, though not the absolute majority required for election.

The official results of the election gave Buckner a plurality of 16,797 over Bradley.