Sentence examples for weak majority from inspiring English sources

Administration officials argue that even a resolution that passed with a weak majority would have authority.

He began by predicting that his party would win the election with a tiny, weak majority.

You are the coward!" etc... Letta has said he will refuse to govern with a weak majority.

What is frankly difficult to understand is how Renzi can preach that only by implementing institutional reform will Italy ever have a government strong enough to achieve radical reforms, when he is about to attempt even more dramatic changes supported by a very weak majority.

Bridget Welsh, an associate professor at Singapore Management University who follows Malaysian electoral politics, said that whoever wins is likely to have a weak majority given that the race is so close, but that a narrow victory would leave Mr. Najib in a particularly tenuous position.

The data suggest that correspondence-type theories may enjoy a weak majority among professional philosophers and that the opposition is divided.

Some constituencies will now return five senators rather than two.The new voting system promises to end what Ms Bachelet has called the "permanent draw" between left and right, which has bred complacency among politicians, produced weak majorities for governments and turned off voters.

Another is they win both houses but with weak majorities.

Politically, the vote is being seen as heartening for Remainers and soft-Brexiteers, who have shown that they are able to use May's piss-weak majority to influence Brexit.

"When the opposition is very weak, the majority becomes a little extravagant," he said.

The individual predictive ability of any of the measures (of cognitive skills, non-cognitive traits and of behaviour) appears weak, the majority of the statistically significant correlations being in the range 0.16 to 0.24 and only a few exceeded 0.30 (accounting for only 9% of the variance).