Sentences with phrase «own bare majority»

Republicans are using what's called «budget reconciliation» to pass their health care bill with a bare majority of 50 votes and avoid a Democratic filibuster.

There was a long, hard - fought session, but together, Bill and Bob persuaded a bare majority of 18 AAs gathered at T. Henry Williams's home in Akron to accept the whole package — book, hospitals, missionaries, and fund raising.

But together Bill and Bob persuaded a bare majority of 18 AA.

A bare majority for Brexit is hardly a ringing endorsement of such a momentous move, which threatens to fragment the United Kingdom itself.

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

Because the selection will the made by the full Legislature, the overwhelming Democratic majority in the 150 - seat Assembly has far more influence over the process than the 63 - seat state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority along with Brooklyn's Sen. Simcha Felder.

These thresholds of 6 and 16 points are based on what would be required under uniform swing assumptions for the Conservatives to win a bare majority and a 100 + majority respectively.

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.

A bare majority of those polled accepted that the government's decision to push ahead with the ill - fated aircraft carrier project was the right one given the circumstances.

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.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

That was a bare majority of the conference.

When attorneys representing Democrats who dominate the Assembly and Republicans who hold a bare majority in the Senate acknowledged they had no agreement through a joint task force, called LATFOR, that is tasked with drawing the congressional lines, Mann ordered they develop their own proposals by Wednesday.

And even if Democrats did pick up a bare majority of seats in November, they would still have to contend with four members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who have often voted with the Republicans.

ALBANY — As Republicans and Democrats gear up for a battle royal to control the state Senate, the GOP has amassed a cash advantage of nearly 5 to 1, proving the benefits of incumbency as they push to hold their bare majority in the chamber.

«The Vito Lopez sex scandal persuades a bare majority of New Yorkers that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver should step aside.

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.

As of Wednesday, so do 76 New York State Assembly members (of 150 seats) and 32 State Senators (of 63 seats), a bare majority in each house.

Cuomo continues to fall in the polls, with only a bare majority (51 %) now supporting him, raising the real possibility that most voters will reject him in November.

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.

Figure 1 shows how at the beginning of the period February - March 2014 a bare majority of Yes voters intended to vote for the SNP, and around 20 % still intended to vote Labour.

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.

He's such a lightweight he lowered taxes, repeatedly, with an overwhelming Democrat majority in the Assembly and just a bare majority in the Senate.

«Generally speaking, they like to bring bills to the floor if they're confident that it has 76 Democratic votes,» he tells us, referring to the number constituting a bare majority of the Assembly.

The remote chance Labour would be the largest party has not happened, and most likely the Tories will rely on the DUP votes to get a bare majority, But only a bare majority, and May is fatally damaged.

Republican gains in 2014 gave the party its bare majority, though the partnership with the IDC continues under new terms.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

But pluralities and bare majorities are often not enough to alter public policy in a country where power is divided between two highly competitive and increasingly polarized political parties.

A bare majority of Americans support increasing the salaries of those teaching in challenging school environments instead of using the same funds to offer all teachers a smaller pay increase.

And only a bare majority (54 percent) were employed anywhere in the state's public school system.

When told how much the local schools were spending, support for increased spending dropped by 10 percentage points, from 61 percent to a bare majority of 51 percent.

While the bare majority of parents surveyed support the Common Core, there is a substantial group who are opposed with support more likely to be found among Democrats and Independents, and opposition found largely among Republicans.

The magnitude of the goals while great, only requires a bare majority to accomplish.

1) a majority (perhaps a bare majority) of the public want this «climate thing» fixed — they have become tired of being scared

Add Nick Xenophon, who usually comes good in the end, and you would have a bare majority.

There are 12 elected benchers, a bare majority.

The House of Lords concluded, by a bare majority, that as she had contributed half the purchase price of the house, she was entitled to half of the sale proceeds under a resulting trust.

In 2005 the House of Lords, by a bare majority, ruled that a claimant who was not prepared to come to England to give evidence at his defamation trial because he feared extradition to another country if he did, could be allowed to give his evidence via a videolink from France: Polanski v. Conde Nast Publications Ltd [2005] 1 W.L.R. 637.

There was a sharp split on the Court, with a bare majority of five justices giving a narrow win to the federal government over the joint dissent of their three Quebec colleagues (with whom one other justice -LSB-...] Read more

From the point of view of Mr Culpepper and a bare majority of the union's membership, these changes were insufficient.

But of the nine domestic judges that considered the case, only a bare majority felt he had been detained; and their lordships, of course, went the other way.

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 %).

Not exact matches

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

The pattern repeated itself endlessly: Some line would be crossed (a bared buttock, a profanity, a dollop of anti-Catholic bigotry) and the Moral Majority or the Catholic League or the Traditional Values Coalition would mount a protest or a boycott, which in turn only ensured higher ratings for the television show in question and incentives for further envelope - pushing the next time around.

Arsenal had to bare without key players like Alexis Sanchez, Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck for the majority of the campaign after their seasons were curtailed by injuries.

Nani or Ashley Young on the left flank with Antonio Valencia on the right wing for the majority of key games, If the Kagawa — Van Persie partnership bares fruit as it blossoms to fruition, Rooney may well have to shift out to the left wing providing more competition for Nani, Young and Danny Welbeck on the left where Welbeck is ineffective.

Ford Motor Company, for example, will continue giving new mothers a full year's leave on full pay, while fathers — by far the majority of their workforce — will receive the bare minimum (around # 137 per week — lower than the national minimum wage!)

While a few obviously talented teachers attract a healthy following for wrestling, gymnastics and other sports classes, the majority of the parks were surprisingly bare of children, even in after - school hours.

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.)

What do you think of the view that Vernon Bogdanor and Anthony Barnett have both expressed, that the proposed 55 % rule is of no real consequence since any law embodying it could be repealed by a bare parliamentary majority anyway, restoring the status quo?