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Example sentences for "absolute majority"

  • No party can be certain of securing representation unless in its own strength it can obtain an absolute majority in at least some of the constituencies.

  • It was with the utmost difficulty that they obtained representation in constituencies other than those in which at the first elections they were in an absolute majority.

  • For election on the first ballot an absolute majority of the votes cast within the circle, or district, is required.

  • Upon any one of these bases Prussia must have been accorded an absolute majority of the aggregate number, rather than a scant third.

  • The Senate had a large Democratic majority, but in the House three parties divided the responsibility,--no one of them having an absolute majority.

  • In every other free State he had an absolute majority.

  • But if not, then the weeding-out process is applied until an absolute majority is obtained.

  • If an absolute majority of the whole of the voters cannot be obtained for any candidate, then the candidate who comes nearest to the absolute majority is elected.

  • If any unelected candidate now stands first on an absolute majority of all these papers he is elected.

  • The seats for which a quota has not been obtained are filled one after the other, each by a candidate elected by an absolute majority of the whole of the voters.

  • Should more than two candidates receive the highest number of votes--no one obtaining an absolute majority--two or more having secured the same number, Congress shall elect from said candidates.

  • Nor shall they begin to do business without two-thirds of the total number of their members being present, or continue their sessions without the attendance of an absolute majority.

  • When both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies decide by an absolute majority in each that amendment is necessary, they meet in joint session as a National Assembly for that purpose.

  • An absolute majority of the members composing the National Assembly is required to change the Constitution.

  • Amendments to the Federal Constitution of Australia may be proposed by an absolute majority of both Houses of Parliament.

  • The election resulted in giving an absolute majority to neither the party members nor the supporters of the government.

  • The president of the court shall be the general having the highest rank of all, and should there be more than one having equal rank, the president shall be elected from among them by absolute majority of votes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute good; absolute idealism; absolute liberty; absolute monarch; absolute monarchy; absolute music; absolute necessity; absolute power; absolute predestination; absolute reality; absolute space; absolute unity; absolutely certain; absolutely free; absolutely impossible; absolutely true; allowing the; bread making; buttered mould; civil list; indirectly elected; long delayed; much opposed; protests against; that side; thin strip