Sentence examples for safe majority from inspiring English sources

Even if May does win a safe majority, this is no personal victory.

The astrologer who looked into this says that O'Brien is due fo reelection by a safe majority.

The hero of Harley Granville Barker's play Waste is a progressive politician lured into a pact with the Tories to secure them a safe majority in a hung parliament, then ruthlessly dumped by his erstwhile "partners".

Shortly after Ney arrived in the House in 1994, he became a part of DeLay's Retain Our Majority Program (ROMP), a fundraising effort in which GOP colleagues donated to Republicans such as Ney in districts without a safe majority.

Now the Democrats had a safe majority in the House and a filibuster-proof supermajority of 60 in the Senate.

His once safe majority in Renfrewshire East - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated by the SNP's Kirsten Oswald who swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

She's siding with them again in Florida's redistricting case, and it's easy to see the mutual benefit there: Brown gets a safe majority-minority district, while Republicans benefit from diluted minority representation in all the districts surrounding Brown's.

The awkward squad also often have quite safe majorities, are popular with their own constituency parliamentary party and so are in many ways untouchable.

But in our era of narrower mandates and more ideologically-polarized parties, what seem like "safe" majorities have had a much shorter shelf life.

Mr Murphy's once-safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated by the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.

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