Sentences with phrase «unassailable majority»

This wasn't a particularly good thing, from a good - government perspective: The Democrats» unassailable majority, and the combination of loyalty and fear that Silver inspired in his members, meant little dissent, debate or — aside from the occasional prosecutorial or investigative - journalistic breakthrough — public scrutiny of the chamber's activities.

Not exact matches

The Senate has been its only presence in Albany in recent years, but the party's majorities there have dwindled and occasionally disappeared after four decades of unassailable control.

He is theoretically heading into 2015 strong: His already unassailable conference gained members, while the State Senate will be contending with a razor - thin Republican majority and Governor Andrew Cuomo is grappling with staff changes after he a re-election that was less than impressive.

Along with Andrew Cuomo's governorship and Sheldon Silver's unassailable Assembly majority, this would put Democratic hands on every lever of power in the state government.

Democrats not only swept Virginia's statewide races but neared a majority in the House of Delegates, a legislative chamber that was gerrymandered to make the Republican majority virtually unassailable.

Mr. Berman said the party's twin goals in November were switching a half - dozen competitive congressional districts from red to blue, and delivering an unassailable Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias is instructive for those who believe that large law firms will always have an unassailable stranglehold on the vast majority of corporate legal work: