Sentences with phrase «majority status»

«Permanent majority status on 36 % of the vote is the kind of decline Labour will cry about all the way to Number 10.»

Fundraising demands pushed the Republican leadership to give up on its stated goal of shrinking the size of government, so that it could better use the power of majority status to raise campaign cash.

And yet despite enjoying majority status, significant privilege, and unchallenged religious freedom in this country, we evangelical Christians have become known as a group of people who cry «persecution!»

Since winning majority status last year, the Conservatives have embarked on a whirlwind series of initiatives in the region, ranging from rebuilding relations with China through high - level visits, to securing an invitation to participate in the TPP, to taking initiatives on Myanmar (lifting sanctions, establishing a new embassy).

Certainly, many people are very unaware of the privileged majority status through which they view sexuality — but I'm not sure that is homophobic in and of itself.

The growing popularity of tablets is pushing ownership of these devices towards majority status, with 44 % of all Internet - connected Americans aged 8 to 64 owning one in May of 2013, up from 30 % in 2012, according to the new Magid Media Futures study.

Represented a client in federal court in New York and before Region 2 of the NLRB (Manhattan) in a dispute over the union's majority status after a count of authorization cards made under a neutrality and card check agreement

I'm sorry that Christians in the United States can be so entitled when we've long enjoyed majority status, when we can be so blind to our own privilege.

Brosif Dude, spend your life in a society that tries to indoctrinate you into a religion that you do not believe in, that fights to get even more special priveleges based on their majority status, and who insist on telling other people how to live their lives — all the while crying that they are the ones being oppressed.

At the height of the Tory Party's «majority status» position under Mrs Thatcher, it was said that «Conservatism swims like a fish in the sea» and any Labour vote is therefore a «deviant one».

Despite the abuse of their majority status to rake in special interest money, the cash - on - hand advantage for Senate Republicans has remained roughly the same as it was in January, putting Senate Democrats on a competitive footing as we move into the political season.

And with six GOP incumbents running unopposed, the odds are pretty slim that Republicans risk losing their majority status.

While staff reductions are normal when a party loses its majority status, the cuts being imposed on the Democrats go far beyond the normal transition process.

They argue that the American voter is not looking for a series of specific policy solutions from Republicans but rather an assurance that if the minority party is restored back to majority status that they will serve as a check and balance on the Obama agenda.

But if Skelos were to quit, the Republicans would lose their majority status.

The overall numbers for undergraduate women are better but still fall far short of matching their majority status on campus: They receive only 11 % of engineering degrees and 24 % of degrees in the physical sciences.

Political pundits are predicting that Republicans will retain their majority status in the House, where they now hold a 14 - vote advantage over Democrats and the one Independent who tends to vote with the Democrats.

Despite their majority status, Republicans in the senate had a difficult time fending off Democratic attempts to stop or alter the legislation.

If I describe them as a farmer, they may very well be assumed to be Chinese due to the majority status.

The Lambs, who should be the collective fighters, by dint of their majority status numbers, but who by their very collective newbie nature are pacifists, who thus are not fighters, but who would collectively benefit the most from real political efficiencies at the CREAcrat level, remain dutifully silent.