Sentences with phrase «slim majority»

Article also gives some insight on how poorly these types of cars have sold world wide, which really indicates your desires are a very slim majority of drivers world wide.

Democrats hold slim majorities in the House and Senate, and their leaders are uneasy about passing a new tax in an election year, observers said.

And finally, Tory MPs like Goldsmith with slim majorities and Lib Dems nipping at their heels are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Mrs May will be hoping to translate this polling lead into a crushing electoral victory and a personal mandate that will free her from the constraints of working with her current slim majority of just 17.

Both men look to have a good chance in seats where Labour are defending slim majorities, with the national polls looking ominous for Jeremy Corbyn's party.

The goptp has a very slim majority in the state house now, it's real easy to turn.

Schlafly is now eighty - one years old, and she has the undoubted satisfaction of knowing that the conservativism that she pushed without compromising for decades is now the majority (if slim majority) ideology in America.

Currently, May is constrained by a relatively slim majority in Parliament of only 12 seats.

The future constitution and makeup of the UK and its position in the EU are huge political unknowns; they are about to be addressed under a government with a dangerously slim majority in parliament — and only one seat in Scotland.

The latest opinion polls predict Labour will lose its already slim majority in the assembly, returning with as few as 25 seats and the worst election result in Wales in recent times.

Slim Majority View NY State Assembly As Doing Poor Job Although the New York State Assembly has remained mostly out of the spotlight during the Senate battle, New York State voters aren't cutting them any slack.

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.

Under normal circumstances, the Government would attempt to rush through new legislation to re-design the fees regime and limit claims pre-dating this decision — however Theresa May's slim majority makes this difficult.

In its drive for a majority, the PQ will be targeting many ridings just outside Montreal that some Coalition members won in 2012 with slim majorities.

With 36 governors» races, slim majorities in control of many legislatures, and several significant ballot measures, the stakes are high for schools this Nov. 3.

Of the 15 Lib Dem MPs who remain in government, seven will be defending slimmer majorities than Baker.

Even though Republicans are in the majority, it's a very slim majority, and they just don't have the votes to make large changes to the Federal budget without Democrats support.

The survey conducted by the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research earlier this month found that a slim majority — 52 % — worry that withdrawing will actually hurt the economy.

In a CNBC survey of economists and fund managers late last week, a slim majority (3 percent) said Trump's policies are likelier to improve the economy than Clinton's.

Republicans hold the Senate by the slimmest majority possible, at 51 to 49 seats, and losing even one or two seats could further hamper their ability to enact Trump's already slow - moving agenda.

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.

But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

Trump could also make it harder to pass lasting tax reform, since any policy that increases the debt above its baseline either requires Democratic support or — if passed by a slim majority of Republicans in the Senate — would expire in a decade.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

Despite their enthusiasm for Verizon participating in the market, the slim majority of Canadians, just more than half, agree that Canadians might lose control of their own mobile market to foreign interests if they are large enough (52 %).

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

In comparison, 51 % of Americans, a slim majority, agreed with that statement in 2006.

That decision was voted in by a slim majority of British voters on Thursday.

Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left coalition gained a slim majority in the lower house, winning by 125,000 votes.

As the House tax committee weighed amendments to a bill that Democrats have blasted as a giveaway to corporations and the rich, the Washington tax reform debate was fast shifting to the Senate, where Republicans hold only a slim majority.

Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left coalition won a slim majority in the lower house but no party won enough seats to win a majority in the country's upper house, the Senate.

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

Seven - in - ten Saskatchewan residents (70 %) and a slim majority of those in Ontario (53 %) say that Alberta's claims are more persuasive than those put forth by B.C.

A slim majority of BC MLA's oppose TMX — cue the backlash In the dying days of his administration before the pivotal inauguration of John Kennedy, outgoing Republican president Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of caution, the echoes of which we would do well to reflect upon today.

Slim majorities in Manitoba and Atlantic Canada also say that delaying the Kinder Morgan project is justified.

Even though the dollar has raced to 14 - year highs against a basket of currencies in the wake of the Fed meeting, only a slim majority - 52 percent of poll participants who expressed a view - thought the euro / dollar exchange rate would break below parity in 2017.

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.

President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State faces a challenging road to confirmation with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the Senate and Democrats who once voted for him now opposed.

Greece's slim majority held by the ruling conservative - socialist coalition just got slimmer to just a 3 seat margin after the Democratic Left fled the coalition.

Yet the Tennessean's support is critical to push tax reform in the Senate, where the GOP has a slim majority.

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.

But that slim majority belies deep divisions across Islamic sects in Lebanon, with 94 percent of Shia supporting Hezbollah and 84 percent of Sunnis looking on the group unfavorably.

Eternity is a long time and it is my belief that God will get all, not part, not some, not a slim majority.

According to a new poll, a slim majority - 56 percent - of Americans support upcoming congressional hearings into alleged extremism in the U.S. Muslim community.

The AP - GfK poll [in April] found that a slim majority of Americans (52 percent) say that wedding - related businesses should be allowed to refuse service to same - sex couples, but just 40 percent say that businesses more generally should be allowed to do so.

California is STILL arguing over Prop 8 where the majority (albeit a slim majority) voted to deny gays the right to marry.

According to Campbell, a slim majority of the 30 teams favor shootouts after inconclusive overtime periods, a sop to paying customers that would spell the death of the tie.

Could the sheer pressure of a slim majority be overcome by the infamous Lib Dem incumbency effect?