Sentence examples for striking majority from inspiring English sources

A slim majority of voters nationwide and a striking majority of city dwellers shunned the leading pair in favour of less divisive figures.

According to the Luntz Research Companies, a striking majority of Americans — 86percentt of us — support legislation that would do just that.

The striking majority would object this claim, by opposing that the EU, because of its current institutional framework, will never be able to overcome the fundamental sovereignty of nations, which States pretend to incarnate historically.

And it really is striking, a majority of candidates on this stage have supported amnesty, I have never supported amnesty".

And perhaps most striking, the majority ruling in Heller specifically leaves open the question of whether the public has a right to carry "concealed weapons," a bedrock claim of gun rights advocates.

In the New Hampshire primary contest Clinton lost women overall, but a look at the breakdown by age is striking--a majority of women 45 and older backed Clinton, while more than 8 in 10 women under 30 supported Sanders.

Blue candidates won control of the House of Representatives and gained eight seats in the Senate, bringing them within striking distance of a majority there, next time around.

He is within striking distance of a majority of the new Parliament's 325 seats, except that very few outside his own coalition want him to succeed.

Mr. McCain and Mr. Lieberman are now within striking distance of a majority.

For decades the Democrats have had enough solid support in the north-east, the west coast and parts of the industrial Midwest to put them within striking distance of a majority in the electoral college.

So, too, could an ICM poll that appeared late yesterday giving the Tories a remarkable six-point lead (on 39%, which would put them within striking distance of a majority).