Sentences with phrase «decisive majority»

«There is no doubt that they would be in a stronger position to take the country through these challenges successfully if they had a large and decisive majority in the Commons and a new full term ahead of them.»

But no matter who wins tonight, tomorrow a strong and decisive majority of New Yorkers will continue to support the freedom to marry, just as a majority of the American public does.»

The way is then open to progress a clear unity agenda, which the Prime Minister will focus around the urgent task of broadening Tory appeal for a decisive majority at the 2020 election.

The twelve Ulster Unionists who sat in the Commons from 1922 to 1974 never on their own made a decisive majority to overrule the English.

In 2015, Ed Miliband pinned his electoral hopes on reengaging disaffected young people — only to watch the Tories secure a decisive majority as youth turnout lingered in the low 40s.

«For a long time our voting system has lead to parliaments that do not represent the votes cast; now it seems it can not even deliver us decisive majorities.

A clean sweep for the left will give Corbyn a decisive majority on the NEC, helping him to push through the rule changes he and his supporters want, including to the way future leaders are elected, to make it easier for leftwingers to take over when he goes.

«I would say when you have a bill that commands a decisive majority in the City Council at a minimum there should be legislative negotiations,» he said in a phone interview with the Observer.

These are places we need to be winning in next time to secure a decisive majority.

We think this will go down to the wire; those people who are strongly committed now won't shift because they have always been that way but those who make up their mind at the very last moment will be the decisive majority.

Alternatively, telephone calls might not be made until a decisive majority of waivered students had been obtained.

PG&E; Chairman and Chief Executive Peter Darbee said that his employees «find it dismaying that the Chamber neglects the indisputable fact that a decisive majority of experts have said the data on global warming are compelling and point to a threat that can not be ignored.»