Sentences with phrase «with slim majorities»

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.

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 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.

With a slim majority of 12 seats, the new Prime Minister's autonomy will be highly constrained by his party, including assumingly more than a hundred convinced Eurosceptic MPs, and by the statutory Fixed - term Parliaments Act of 2011.

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

With his slim majority, I suspect the Prime Minister will be given a near - permanent headache by Peter Bone and the Tory backbench awkward squad in the run - up to that referendum.

Then in 2011, Lothian's constituencies were engulfed in the SNP tidal wave, except Edinburgh North and Leith which the popular Malcolm Chisholm held for Labour with a slim majority over Shirley - Anne Somerville (who lost her seat on the list because of that wave of success but looks set to return as the representative for Dunfermline).

The rebels were convincingly defeated - but the tally of Eurosceptic rebels is still a concern for a government with a slim majority.

If the results hold, the conference will likely still be wooed to some degree by a Republican conference with a slim majority, but the chances they will be co-equal partners would likely evaporate.

So, Labour holds Southampton with a slim majority of 25 councillors - winning 12 seats on the night.

And the mayor's slate of candidates for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board has won, providing the mayor with a slim majority of allies (four of seven).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

However, it must be said that only a slim few manage this feat, with the vast majority of our youth players more likely to ultimately find their senior careers spent in other colours than bianconeri (NB.

May has agreed a confidence and supply deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to secure a slim working majority on major votes.

Just over one month later, the breakaway IDC announced its historic power - sharing deal with the GOP (plus Felder), which enabled the Republicans to retain a slim hold on the majority.

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

The mayor has publicly feuded with fellow Democrat Cuomo and drawn the ire of state Republicans» ire by raising funds in an unsuccessful bid to unseat the GOP's slim Senate majority in 2014.

What would happen in the event that Cameron crawled over the finishing line as prime minister with no majority, or a very slim one?

Having ruled in coalition with nationalist Plaid Cymru for the past four years, Mr Jones will have to decide whether to govern through this slim majority or seek coalition partners once more.

Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Democrats took control of the chamber last year with a slim 32 - to - 30 margin.

Connecticut's legislative session this year was marked by the closest partisan divide in recent memory with an 18 - 18 split in the Senate and a slim 79 - 72 Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

And with six GOP incumbents running unopposed, the odds are pretty slim that Republicans risk losing their majority status.

London's slimmest marginal Croydon Central will see Labour challenge Tory housing minister Gavin Barwell's majority of just 165 - which he admitted beefing up with tours round parliament.

In a bid to gain a majority, a second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, still with Harold Wilson as leader, won a slim majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319.

On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the five - member Independent Democratic Conference would align with the mainline Democratic conference to form a slim majority in 2015.

The two newly - elected board members — former town clerk Cynthia Hyde and bread - baker Kathy Templeton — sided with rebel board member Mike Eddy to form a slim majority to change various ways the town conducts its business.

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.

Now the five - member IDC is an independent group that works closely with Cuomo and the Republicans» slim majority.

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.

That's especially true given their slim hold on the majority that could come down to a shaky power - sharing deal with five renegade Democrats.

But Democrats are effectively split into three groups: about two dozen traditional members led by Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Westchester County; five Independent Democrats led by Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx and Westchester; and Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, who caucuses with Republicans to help form their slim majority.

Besides, she'll come in with strong support in her old senate district down around New Bern / Morehead City... areas that we either aren't winning now or have to fight for a slim majority.

I agree with your last statement, but as long as the Republicans in the House and Senate continue to stick together and support the President's war policy, that policy can not be changed by a slim Democratic majority.

The Republican incumbent billed himself as a candidate with a record of getting things done in Albany, while Avella repeatedly called himself a reformer who would change Albany's political landscape because of the Democrats» slim 32 - 30 majority in the Senate.

Clement Attlee had decided to call the election after the King's concerns that, over leaving the country to go on his Commonwealth tour in 1952 with a government that had such a slim majority, there was danger of a change of government in his absence.

But the political power of ethics as an electoral issue will also be an undercurrent in 2016: The Republicans currently hold the slimmest of majorities in the 63 - seat Senate, with 31 seats and the help of Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

Democrats hold the State Assembly by a huge margin, while Republicans control the State Senate with only a slim and cobbled - together majority.

With the Skelos seat vacant, Republicans have maintained a slim majority in alliance with a handful of renegade DemocrWith the Skelos seat vacant, Republicans have maintained a slim majority in alliance with a handful of renegade Democrwith a handful of renegade Democrats.

The GOP still maintains a slim 32 - 31 majority in the Senate, thanks to the support of renegade Democrat Simcha Felder as well as a deal with five other independent Democrats.

With such a slim majority — the third smallest in the country — the Conservatives require only a fractional swing to wrest Chester out of Labour's hands.

«But despite a cycle of party switches, lockouts, fiscal problems, a dysfunctional relationship with the governor and an excess of scandal - tarred figures, the slim Democratic majority is getting away with a designation of tossup, thanks to the state's general Democratic lean, a strong candidate for governor (Andrew Cuomo) and missed Republican opportunities.»

According to a POLITICO New York review of the 1.37 million words contained in the Assembly's transcripts for 2016, a slim majority of them — 690,469 — were uttered in debates on bills or resolutions dealing with policy matters.

A slim majority — 51 % — report that Cuomo would be their candidate of choice compared with 43 % who would prefer Giuliani.

The probe has rocked the fractious Republican - led state Senate, which holds a slim majority and has alliance with a renegade faction of eight Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference.

Mr. Ortt said he would not resign, but the indictment nevertheless raised the issue of the balance of power in the State Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority thanks only to a power - sharing agreement with a group of breakaway Democrats.

It's unclear what the indictment might mean, if anything, to Republicans» slim majority in the Senate with about a week until the state budget is due.

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.