Sentences with phrase «slim majorities from»

They also have a dilemma in choosing whether to fight a hard campaign (with very little prior notice in this seat where there chances are quite slim), or dedicate their member's efforts in neighbouring Croydon Central and Sutton, where they have slim majorities from 2015.

Not exact matches

A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation shows a slim majority of Canadians (55 per cent) support the pursuit of a free - trade agreement and that 64 per cent are concerned Canada will become more susceptible to economic and political pressure from Beijing.

The majority of Slim's fortune is derived from a handful of publicly traded companies.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

His Jewish Home party, a successor to the National Religious Party, quadrupled its representation from three to 12 seats.Together with the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party and the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism, the right - wing Knesset bloc will hold 62 of the Knesset's 120 seats — a slim majority.

Despite the majority recognising that there's currently a slim chance of such a thing happening, especially when Hector Bellerin is ever present at the club, it doesn't stop Jenkinson himself from believing he can put the Spaniard to the test.

Its institutionalisation, on the one hand would shelter it from the potential inefficiencies deriving from further enlargements, and, on the other, it would not foreclose EU members to join, should they wish to share the higher political goals and slimmer majorities in the decision making.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Apart from anything else, the prize in Copeland — another MP — is well worth having to bolster the Conservatives» slim majority.

But Kaminsky is the first Democrat to hold his seat in three decades (it belonged to Skelos from 1985 until 2015), and his departure could deliver it back to the GOP just as his party looks to cobble together a slim Senate majority.

Is a slimmer, but more partisan Democratic majority helpful or harmful to the Prresident's agenda as it removes from the picture more stories of «democratic defectors?»

In 2014, a slim 5 - 4 majority held that the First Amendment prohibited the collection of an agency fee from personal care providers because they were not «full - fledged» public employees.

The reason that the majority of life insurance experts suggest avoiding these plans is because the chances of every getting the payout from the plan is slim.