Sentence examples for special majority from inspiring English sources

The results were not surprising, because it would have taken a special majority, 80 of 120 votes, for the lawmakers to remove Mr. Barak and stay in office themselves.

Changes in Directive Principles require a Constitutional amendment which has to be passed by a special majority of both houses of the Parliament.

However, bills seeking to amend the Constitution must be carried by a special majority: not less than two-thirds of all MPs on the second and third readings.

"But after seven years of incitement and de-legitimization of the Arab population, how do you expect me to believe this person?" This month, the Knesset, Israel's parliament, passed a law allowing a special majority to dismiss a legislator who expresses support for an enemy of Israel — legislation seen as targeting Arab lawmakers.

The Israeli parliament has responded to Assad's calling by passing a bill which states that a public referendum or a special majority of two thirds of the parliament members would be necessary before withdrawal from the Golan (or any other land under Israeli sovereignty).

Rural-to-urban migrant workers are a special majority group in Shenzhen city of China, and most of them range from 16 to 25 years old.

Since America's population is both faster-growing and more mobile than that of other old democracies, and since the Voting Rights Act actually requires minorities to have special "majority-minority districts" in order to get an equal chance to elect candidates of their choice (ie, their race), redistricters end up doing a lot more than tinker.The results are as bizarre as you would expect.

Special majorities are required for constitutional legislation and for the election of the president of the republic, Constitutional Court judges, and members of the Superior Council of the Magistrature.

Many who favour the system maintain that it provides presidents with a special federative majority and a broad national mandate for governing, unifying the two major parties across the country and requiring broad geographic support to win the presidency.

But pregnancy itself, Justice Scalia writes, does not give rise to any special consideration.The majority opinion explains persuasively why Justice Scalia's interpretation hits the delete button on half of the PDA (the part after the semi-colon) and ignores what Congress was trying to do when it passed the law in 1978.

A majority, Special Agent Arthur testified, were never even interrogated.