Sentence examples for ruling majority from inspiring English sources

Among those most loudly condemning Greece and demanding it default and/or exit the euro have been members of Angela Merkel's ruling majority – especially from the eurosceptic Bavarian Christian Social Union wing.

Remarkably, order could be pulled from this culturally calamitous crisis if just two GOP senators had the moral courage to deprive Donald Trump of a ruling majority until he agreed to bring to heel his most destructive instincts.

The battlefield defeat ended a vicious conflict that for twenty-six years had divided Sri Lanka along ethnic lines, as the country's Tamils, a mostly Hindu minority, fought for the creation of a separate state against the ruling majority of Sinhalese Buddhists.

Speaking to the BBC, Ms Aung San said she believed her party had won approximately 75 per cent of the available seats – enough to give them a ruling majority in spite of a quarter of parliamentary positions being reserved for the military.

"Our problem with March 14th is not that they are aligned with the U.S., but it is their policies," says Alain Aoun, a nephew of General Aoun, who says American support has magnified tensions while emboldening the ruling majority to resist compromises.

But on September 19th the head of a delegation from the European Parliament said that he had secured from Mr Maroni an undertaking it would not be invoked for EU citizens.What many in Mr Berlusconi's ruling majority appear not to realise is that the free-movement directive, which came into force two years ago, gives EU citizens (beggars and crooks included) essentially the same rights as locals.

Mr. Spitzer will look the other way and Mr. Patterson will supply the votes the ruling majorities need to keep their slush funds intact.

In Tuesday's ruling the majority judgment found that "the undisputed facts clearly reveal that the asylum seekers had no intention of entering and remaining in PNG.

The ruling party majority is almost certain to get wiped out," predicted Michael Henderson, an analyst with Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy.

In just a century, democracy has gone from being a foible of a few western states to ruling a majority of the world's population.

After numerous failed attempts, the ruling New Majority has mustered the votes to scrap the binominal system; the measure passed both houses of parliament in January and should become law soon.