Sentences with phrase «small majority means»

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

Not exact matches

This means that a small portion of leading startups end up getting more money while the majority remains in the «winter».

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

It would be only a small majority, but it's likely to mean that in the wards which cover the tight parliamentary marginal of Croydon Central up for grabs next year, Labour would have won.

Currently the majority of core - nanotech companies are of small or medium size, which means that there are usually fewer politics than in big companies.

But you know what I mean... a majority of us probably only wear a small fraction of our wardrobe.

And while theories like Adam Warlock, Starfox, Starhawk and the Beyonder make a certain amount of sense within small circles of comic book fans, the problem with that tact is that the significance of those characters will have no meaning to the majority of worldwide moviegoers.

Amazon has split the screen into virtual sections, with the top third or so meant for pulling up the menu, the majority of the right for advancing to the next page, and a small section of the left side for reversing directions.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

A low dividend payout ratio means that a company is returning a small portion of its earnings to investors, while a high payout ratio implies that a company uses the majority of its profit for dividends instead of for future growth.

The vast majority of the crowd present at the tenth edition of Brasil Game Show was most likely interested in upcoming titles from big companies such as Dragon Ball FighterZ, Far Cry 5, Ni No Kuni 2 and Sea of Thieves, but that doesn't mean smaller local studios didn't have their chance to shine.

This means an electric vehicle currently could handle the vast majority of the individual trips Americans make with no problem, especially if a recharge was available at the other end for the small amount of journeys between 30 and 70 miles.

If Apple does do more with payments it will be to lock in people to their ecosystem, which means it wont be something that we will see adopted by the majority of large or small businesses.

Self - employment / freelance work is unlikely as the nature of the role means that the majority of recycling officers are employed by local authorities, with a small number employed in the private or charity sector.

To a large extent, at least in the early years, this means taking on the behaviors and attitudes the majority of the children learned at home — a parents» - group - to - children's - group effect that can be identified as such only by observing the small minority of children who learned something different at home (and controlling for heredity).