Sentences with phrase «bare majority needed»

The eight votes, of the panel's 14 commissioners, was a bare majority needed to deliver the job to Agata, a former counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the person said.

Even if the marriage of the 23 mainline Democrats and the eight members of the IDC were to occur, another Democratic senator, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, would need to leave his current alliance with the Republican Conference to give Democrats the 32 - member bare majority needed to control the flow of legislation.

Not exact matches

This state law could be changed, but you would need more than the bare legislative majority you propose - you'd need enough votes to override the inevitable veto (the governor isn't on your side, since you don't have half the state's population.)

Labour needs only the barest lead in the popular vote to win an overall majority: not so the Conservatives.

But Labour is still expected to be quite some distance from a bare majority, which is 326 seats, and would need closer to 340 to sustain a workable majority in the House of Commons.

If Brooks» victory stands, 32 seats in the State Senate — the bare minimum — needed for a majority, will belong to Democrats.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal mMajority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal mmajority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

While the rules stipulate that he would need to win a bare majority, a slim margin of victory could, in reality, severely undermine his authority and leave his position untenable.

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

If you study the history of women and spending trends you will notice that women have always been the dominate spenders, before women independence they spent the majority of the man's pay checks on the house, the car, the remodeling, the stove, the washer / dryer combo, the bedroom set, the bed, the couch, the dining room table, i would bet money that the woman was the driving force in each discussion, because in most cases the men decide if it works why fix it, and when translated to art, less men will look at a bare wall and decide that it needs art covering it.

One respondent suggested that consensus could be reached when the majority of people agreed, although most of the group needed to be in agreement, and not just a bare majority (51 %).