Sentence examples for wafer-thin majority from inspiring English sources

It has a wafer-thin majority in the Senate.

Meanwhile, his coalition splintered and as a result was on a wafer-thin majority.

So the combined MDC, which has a history of quarrelling, will have a wafer-thin majority.

Elections in 2012 propelled the Muslim Brotherhood into the presidential palace by a wafer-thin majority.

The Coalition has emerged from the election with a wafer-thin majority in the House of Representatives.

She leaves office immediately - and perhaps even politics itself after the next election, given her wafer-thin majority.

To the shock of many onlookers, the deal was rejected by a wafer-thin majority of 50.2% to 49.8%.

Merkel's center-right coalition, which is prone to infighting, has only a wafer-thin majority in that assembly.

The wafer thin majority did not impede Menzies entering the great pantheon of do-little conservative heroes.

That's a big call when your government holds office with a wafer thin majority relying on an independent member.

McGowan holds the seat on a wafer thin majority of just 0.3%, and will face a battle from Liberal party stalwart Sophie Mirabella – who McGowan unseated in the 2013 poll – in the upcoming federal election.