"expand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the May 2007 parliamentary election, the party expanded its majority, winning 73 seats.
- With most of the votes counted, it appeared that Labor would expand its current 7-seat majority in the 146-member house.
- Now the Democrats want a shot at expanding their tenuous 10 to a more secure majority, say 11, 12 or even 13.
- The Republicans, who now hold a 53-to-47 edge in the Senate, are still likely to retain control there, and indeed could expand their majority.
- If the Republicans cannot expand their majority, impeachment is much less likely.
- It expanded its majority, by two, to 36 seats in the 65-member parliament.
- He predicted that the prosecution would help Democratic attempts to expand their legislative majority.
- Republicans had a net gain of 1 seat for the 2008 elections, expanding their majority to 30-20.
- Democratic legislators, who are scrambling to expand their one-vote majority, were receptive to the budget.
- Since then, the Democrats have expanded their majority by two, a mirror image of the numbers a decade ago.
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