Sentence examples for serves in the majority from inspiring English sources

When she doesn't put a lot of first serves in, the majority of her second serves go to the girls' forehands.

And McCain will then assert that if you don't like the Congress in which Senator Obama serves in the majority right now, you really should be alarmed about a President Obama rubber-stamping the deeds of a Democratic Congress next year.

Her critics, meanwhile, are mostly new and younger members; many have not served in the majority.

In less than 20 years, the percentage of black legislators in the South serving in the majority fell from 99.5 percent to 4.8 percent.

With Republicans clinging to a narrow six-seat margin in the House, one or two of these tight races could spell the difference between serving in the majority or serving in the minority.

Just a third of the 235 Republicans have ever served in the minority, and only a little more than half of Democrats have ever served in the majority.

The problem is particularly acute in the House, where just 60 Republicans — a quarter of their caucus — have ever served in the majority with a GOP president.

In the aftermath of the 2010-11 electhens, the proportion of Southern blacks serving in the majority – that is, the party controlling the state legislature — dropped to just 15 out of 313.

After capturing the House for the first time in 40 years, Republicans literally had no one on their side in 1995 who had ever served in the majority and had to learn on the fly, leading to some critical stumbles.

Consistent with our analysis of Legislative Effectiveness Scores in the U.S. House, we find that senators are more effective lawmakers when they serve in the majority party and if they chair a committee or subcommittee.

Many of the hopefuls are current members of the House who want to become one of only 100 senators in Washington and to serve in the majority, as opposed to remaining one of 435 House members and languish in the minority.