Sentences with phrase «small majority»

Now let us consider what happens, in a democracy, and how a relatively small majority can control decision making.

This would be an incredibly small majority to rely upon, vulnerable to any small rebellion.

At one point in the night there were concerns that the party leader Tim Farron could also be vulnerable but he managed to just hold on, albeit with a much smaller majority of 777 - down from 8,949.

This is bad news for Conservative MPs with small majorities over Labour.

As a result of his party's victory Theresa May has an even smaller majority in the Commons to navigate the path towards Brexit.

Unlike many of her colleagues with very small majorities, Labour MP and ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is intending defending her constituency at the election.

In contrast, 85 % of primary schools with officers present said these officers were on site at some point during school hours, while smaller majorities said officers were at school when students were arriving or leaving (67 %) or at selected school activities, such as science fairs or athletic events (60 %).

The now powerful party figure is credited with devising its marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majorities.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

Voters in these seats were evenly divided as to whether the coalition represents «the beginning of a new type of politics», though small majorities thought so on the Conservative - Liberal Democrat battleground.

I must be in the even smaller majority of people who played it on the Wii U and with whom it DID N'T click:P.

Slightly smaller majorities oppose investment in Qantas (51 % against) and the NBN (52 % against).

Winchester 1997Mark Oaten's majority of two in Winchester was the joint - smallest majority ever recorded.

MPs and ministers with relatively small majorities around the 5,000 mark worked tirelessly in 2015 to hold or take their seats.

Well, the only situation where a Lib / Lab coalition would be democratically acceptable after the next election would be one where Labour emerges as the largest party in a hung parliament or has an extremely small majority.

From 1992 to 2016, the Democratic and Republican parties both claimed small majorities, the largest being from 2012 to 2014 when Democrats had an eight - seat advantage.

«If we get kicked to death in the Corby by - election, if we go into next May and the local elections go badly for us, if we do badly in the European elections in 2014, I think a lot of MPs on small majorities who have been very supportive of Cameron and Osborne until now will see 2015 looming and say: «who's going to pay the mortgage in June 2015»,» she told politics.co.uk.

Many many Labour MPs now sit on very small majorities as the result of Michael Howard, and will fall next time.

May's small majority means that less than ten disgruntled Tory backbenchers can confidently block her plans.

Instead, Mr. Cuomo, 56, who easily won re-election on Tuesday — but with what appeared to be a considerably smaller majority than the 65 percent that Gov. Mario M. Cuomo got during his bid for a second term, in 1986 — enters the next four years with less political clout than when the campaign began.

In a survey of earth scientists, Doran and Zimmerman (2009) found that while a majority of meteorologists surveyed are convinced humans have contributed to global warming (64 %), this was a substantially smaller majority than that found among all earth scientists (82 %).

«Banning assault weapon sales nationally is supported by more than three - quarters of Democrats and small majorities of Republicans and independents.

In practice there is variation between seats, so some seats with smaller majorities the Lib Dems would cling on to, some more distant targets they'd probably lose.

«The Government has a very small majority so, let's be clear on that, you don't need very many for this to be a problem of parliamentary arithmetic, but it is fair to say that the numbers on this who have expressed concerns directly to ministers, to whips, to myself — these are the conversations [that] are going on in the lobbies, in the tearoom --[they] are very significant indeed.»

Lord Ashcroft has become a powerful figure at Conservative HQ, where he is credited with devising the party's marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majority.

Her replacement will be defending a relatively small majority of 1,421.

«Fundamentally she has a very small majority,» Mylles recalled, adding that Prime Minister May supported the pro-EU campaign in the lead up to the referendum.

Two - thirds of young people agree with a smaller majority of Americans overall that the government should make sure people have health care coverage.

For though a small majority of Britons voted last June to have their country leave the EU, nothing has officially happened yet.

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

Today, a small majority (54 %) lean the opposite direction, as seen in the graph that follows.

New to the office, Strom fought back young Peter Lougheed «s liberal - minded Progressive Conservatives, leading his party to form a small majority government.

While a majority believe it will be good for Canadian businesses (76 %), a smaller majority (64 %) is also concerned about the economic and political influence China may have on Canada, should our economies become so closely intertwined.

A smaller majority also thought metal detectors in schools and a ban on assault - style weapons would be helpful.

A Conservative MP with a small majority will feel under pressure especially if, say, a candidate for UKIP strongly opposes this measure.

They are a small majority, here.

In The Smaller Majority, Piotr Nasrecki argues, not very persuasively, that such reactions are largely learned rather than instinctive, but at least he addresses the question.

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

That 75 percent isn't a small majority.

A small majority of 56 percent favor the over.

These comments were a small majority, but RUDE and hurtful none - the-less.

It's because the cat lovers are concentrated on two districts while the dog lovers are more evenly distributed, giving them a small majority in the others.

This is even a more serious problem when a referendum takes place if the outcome is decided by a small majority.

Firstly, immediately, and funds permitting, Nuttall will surely be planning a major campaign tour of those constituencies whose MPs voted against triggering Article 50 — and particularly those where the MPs have a small majority and where UKIP are even vaguely viable.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

Labour was re-elected in 1981 with a small majority.