Sentence examples for won the required from inspiring English sources

A number of seats will be decided in run-offs in late April because no candidate won the required 25% of votes cast.

ZIFF DAVIS MEDIA INC., New York, the publisher of PC Magazine, said its revamping plan had won the required acceptance from bondholders holding 95percentt of outstanding bonds.

The statement from the Security Council went through several drafts before it won the required unanimous acceptance of all 15 members.

The margin was far greater than the three percentage points that separated the two men in the Nov. 4 election, when neither won the required 50percentt.

Runoff elections will be held for 35 of those contests, the report added, because no one candidate won the required minimum of one-fourth of the votes cast.

Venezuela trailed its American-backed rival, Guatemala, in more than 20 rounds of voting, but neither won the required two-thirds majority.

The party failed in midterm elections last July to win the required 2percentt of the overall vote needed to keep its registration.

We now know who will contest the Labour leadership election after the window for winning the required 35 nominations slammed shut at midday today.

In order to win the required 1,144 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, Mr. Santorum would have to win nearly 3 out of every 4 delegates in all of the remaining contests.

Earlier in his premiership, Abe abandoned plans to revise the constitution when it became clear he would struggle to win the required two-thirds majorities in both houses and a simple majority in a national referendum.

After topping the poll in the first round of balloting and winning the required 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff, she narrowly defeated former prime minister Esko Aho of the Centre Party (51.6 percent to 48.4 percent) on February 6, 2000.