Sentence examples for previous majority from inspiring English sources
The Islanders moved to Brooklyn after their previous majority owner, Charles Wang, could not persuade Nassau County voters to approve a major development project that included plans for a new arena.
Wayne Huizenga, the previous majority owner, retained a 5percentt interest.
The Hammer has not just pummelled business wallets harder than previous majority leaders.
Also, now that its previous majority shareholder has exited – Arcandor being in financial administration – raising equity should, in theory, be much easier.
When Mr. Bruno overthrew the previous majority leader, Ralph J. Marino, the coup succeeded partly because of his colleagues' frustration with Mr. Marino's secretive ways.
Republicans had been divided in their support for Senator Trent Lott, the previous majority leader, after comments he made that seemed to show nostalgia for segregation.
Previous majorities had threatened to upend filibuster rules in this manner, but relying on a simple majority vote had been used only for relatively minor procedural changes to how amendments were handled, never to eliminate the supermajority requirement altogether.
Having engineered things for so long — Mr. Nazarbayev's party got 88 percent in the most recent election for the Majlis — it would be hard to ease up, lose votes and then try to explain previous majorities, Mr. Nurmakov argued.
Lubbock turned a previous Tory majority of 14,700 into a Liberal majority of 7,885.
3) Katrina Foley: The Costa Mesa new mayor, a counterpoint to the previous council majority, is now powered by her own majority and plans to reverse some of her predecessors' policies.
Speaker Pelosi won her gavel with a promise to "drain the swamp" of the corruption afflicting the previous Republican majority.
