Sentence examples for tenuous majority from inspiring English sources

In early November, Telangana members of Parliament threatened to resign and disrupt the ruling United Progressive Alliance's tenuous majority if the U.P.A. didn't move on the Telangana issue.

But in this deeply patriotic country, where sentiments are old and entrenched, Mr. Erdogan's government, guarding its tenuous majority in Parliament on the verge of the elections, has assumed a more and more hawkish line lately.

Called Naturally Blue, its aim is to maintain the tenuous majority of Democrats in the Arkansas legislature to promote an agenda of economic populism and to take the fight to the rest of Dixie.

To entrench their tenuous majority, North Carolina Republicans raised barriers that they knew would disproportionately burden black voters, and they did so because of, not despite, those racial effects.

They face high expectations from the party's liberal base, at the same time that they must govern with a tenuous majority and a party caucus stretched between liberals from the two coasts and conservatives from the South.

They have been fearful to stray far from Mr. Bush on foreign policy and have been hampered in getting out a message because of their relative weakness -- even in the Senate where they are the strongest, they have only a tenuous majority thanks to an independent who votes with them.

A Democratic victory is critical to the party's chance of holding its tenuous Senate majority.

This is a battlefield that could prove slippery and full of land mines for a tenuous Senate majority that itself lacks ideological unity.

The move reduces May's already tenuous working majority to eight, raising still more questions over her authority amid rumours that there could be further Tory defections.

The last piece of the budget passed on a party-line vote, 32 to 28, with the Senate's tenuous Democratic majority holding together and no Republicans voting in favor of the measure.

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