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Example sentences for "simple majority"

  • In Ohio, Nevada, Montana and South Dakota, only a simple majority vote on the amendment is necessary to pass it, but in Nebraska 35 per cent.

  • In all countries both the State and National suffrage was conferred by a simple majority vote of their Parliaments.

  • Congress had the power to enact such a law by a simple majority vote of both houses.

  • He urged a complete reform of House of Commons procedure, including the institution of the Closure by a simple majority.

  • Mr. Chaplin was denouncing the Closure by a simple majority as unconstitutional and improper.

  • One Minister felt unable to be responsible for proposing Closure by a simple majority, and recommended that the Government should leave the matter as an open question to the House.

  • A resolution of the Reichstag requires a simple majority of votes, except where some other proportion of votes is laid down by the constitution.

  • The Government of the Realm decides by simple majority.

  • The voting shall be decided by simple majority.

  • With some exceptions, a simple majority of the sixty-one votes is adequate for the adoption of a measure.

  • Proposals were carried in the smaller body by simple majority, but in Plenum only by a two-thirds vote.

  • If the authors of the proposals appeal against the decision of the Commission, the whole Council decides, of course by simple majority of votes.

  • A simple majority is quite enough, for it is ultimately the will and mind of a single individual, viz.

  • The Pope might issue a Bull defining that the moral unanimity, which has been so much talked of, is not necessary for Councils in voting articles of faith, and that a simple majority is sufficient.

  • But everything will be settled by the Commission and by a simple majority of votes; the minority may talk, but only so long as the Commission and the majority choose to listen to them.

  • Save as otherwise provided, the Executive Board shall act by a simple majority of the votes cast.

  • Save as otherwise provided for in this Statute, the Council of the EMI shall act by a simple majority of its members.

  • Save as otherwise provided for in this Statue, the Governing Council shall act by a simple majority.

  • Their demands for the time are local option of prohibition by a simple majority, and no compensation.

  • The latter proposal can be carried by a simple majority of those voting; but to secure entire prohibition there must be a majority of two-thirds.

  • The Act requires a two-thirds majority to carry the first proposition, but the second and third are carried by a simple majority.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being informed; entered the; equally well; found anywhere; just said; large section; least twenty; made against; not more; note from; says poor; serve four; simple and; simple conversion; simple enough; simple explanation; simple faith; simple form; simple justice; simple majority; simple sentence; simple sentences; simple syrup; simple thing; this history; thou wert