Sentences with phrase «effective majority»
The phrase "effective majority" means having more than half of the people or votes necessary to make a decision or take an action. It refers to a situation where there are enough supporters to achieve a desired result. Full definition
Even if a politically effective majority of citizens were Catholic, we should not want a confessional state if that means the Church, in its hierarchical self «definition, would be party to executing the necessarily coercive power of the state.
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We might ask: In a society where everybody, or at least a politically effective majority, accepts the authority of the Bible, why shouldn't we be able to appeal explicitly to biblical teaching in political disputes?
The elections were expected to be much closer, but Cameron's Conservative Party actually had a stronger showing than they did in 2010, winning an effective majority in the Parliament.
The PM can now breath easy about the Queen's Speech vote due on Thursday, with DUP support she has an effective majority of 13 in the Commons.
As we suggested in the early hours, the Conservatives are on course to win an effective majority, currently forecasted at 325 seats.
to oppose the state senate's Independent Democratic Caucus, a group of breakaway Democratic legislators giving the numerically smaller Republican conference an effective majority.
That year, the party almost failed to give him their endorsement, until his eleventh hour pledge to oppose the state senate's Independent Democratic Caucus, a group of breakaway Democratic legislators giving the numerically smaller Republican conference an effective majority.
Technically, the speakers belong to parties in a notional majority, though they do not usually vote and therefore don't figure in an effective majority.
Whereas the Conservative Party were 17 seats short of an absolute majority across the entire House of Commons, excluding Scottish MPs would have given David Cameron's party an effective majority (Excluding Sinn Fein's five MPs who do not take their seat and the Speaker) of 12 MPs.
However, on April 24, state Sen. Simcha Felder (D) announced he would continue caucusing with the Senate Republicans regardless of the race's outcome, leaving them with a 32 - 31 effective majority.
However, an effective majority could be smaller as the Speaker and his deputies, although MPs, do not usually vote.
The government only has an effective majority of 16, so it doesn't need many rebels to put the boundaries at risk.
As well, the federal government had an effective majority of members since the chair does not normally vote.