Sentence examples for possessed a majority from inspiring English sources

For instance, in 1986, the government was the shareholder in six out of eight commercial banks, and possessed a majority ownership in two of them (IMF, 2007).

It also possesses a majority of seats in the assembleia.

It would take effect only when enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes -- that is, enough electoral votes to elect a president (270 of 538).

Boehner, Cantor and the GOP retain control of the House, Reid possesses a majority in the Senate but falls five votes short of a filibuster-proof Democratic contingent, and Obama is back in the White House.

Pelosi knows that the Democrats will not possess a reliable majority in the Senate, and that presidential vetoes will prove very difficult to override.

Despite only possessing a slight majority in Poland's parliament, the Law and Justice party has successfully pushed through a number of its policies and consolidated its power.

The Goliaths possess a voting majority, but they don't know that the Davids have three separate advantages: A vote stealer, an idol (granting immunity to its wearer), and an "Idol Nullifier" that makes an opponent's idol useless.

First, all five variables possess a marked majority of small and a clear minority of large realizations.

It was a long battle even when the Dems possessed a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority in the Senate.

In each model the majority of cells possessed a standard deviation less than 0.001.

Strikingly, the vast majority of these possessed a short new FAZ filament that clearly lacked contact with the old FAZ structure (Fig. 2C).