"majority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Buss met from the beginning a hostile majority, and he was reproached in open Parliament with errors and false steps of his youth.
- He knows Israeli control of the valley is his protection against Palestinians, the hostile majority of his country.
- He faced hostile majorities in both houses of the legislature throughout his years as governor.
- But suppose Mr. Bush does manage to squeak back into office, there to face a hostile Democratic majority in Congress.
- If it is admitted, the Suffragists have not merely to awaken an indifferent, but to convert a hostile majority.
- But the member of a minority traditionally domiciled among a hostile majority was an unlikely candidate for conversion.
- Ford defended his meek actions during the crisis, saying hated minorities are never safe from hostile majorities.
- But if past defeats for Presidents facing hostile majorities in Congress are a guide, any such damage will be short-lived.
- For the first time under the Fifth Republic, the President was forced to "cohabit" with a hostile parliamentary majority and cabinet.
- Though faced with a hostile majority in Parliament, Pitt was able to solidify his position in a few months' time.
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