Sentence examples for regular majority from inspiring English sources

Mr. McConnell's clever plan was that the Democrats would not be able to muster a regular majority to pass the bill, thus proving to the world (or at least the 18 people who still have the patience to pay attention to Congress) that the Democrats don't really want to end the pointless fight over the debt ceiling Mr. McConnell cooked up in 2011.

For nearly two years Ms. Kraft pulled off the balancing act of ruling the state without a regular majority, pulling votes for each initiative from opposition parties on the right or the left, before the music stopped in March over her budget.

Democrats with the will to win are the best hope for our country's "regular people" majority.

Every year until then, and every year after, the regular simple majority rule would still apply.

"We can't allow the haters to set the agenda," Commissioner Kirkland said, eliciting cheers and applause from a packed house of center regulars, the majority of them teenagers or older people.

But since preseason games are intended to prepare for the regular season, the majority in the Giants' locker room, -- Fassel included -- saw mostly positives.

The use of CAM among study participants was regular for the majority of patients (two or more times per week for a minimum of one month) (70.1%).

Therefore, among male regular smokers, the majority belonged to the high tar and nicotine intake group (52.9% and 43.1%), while female regular smokers had more frequently a low tar and nicotine intake (43.1% and 48.9%).

An interesting finding by Jonker, Goossens, Steenhuis and Oud [ 5] was that despite the research that mental health nurses are confronted with aggression and violence on a regular basis, the majority of nurses in their study reported their perceptions that they were rarely, or only sometimes confronted with aggression, yet the mean perceived number of incidents was 181 times a year.

Seventy-five yeago ago, the majority of regular first basemen were left-handers.

A majority encourage regular discussions about food issues, food choices and the menus served.