Example sentences of "majority in [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberals had decided to end their pact and so the government had no firm majority in the House on which to rely . |
| 2 | A majority in the House of Commons fancied that it possessed the training in theology , the experience of ways of worship , and the sensitivity to religious feelings , to tell a Church how it ought to say its prayers . |
| 3 | The 1931 general election gave the Conservatives a huge overall majority in the House of Commons , enabling them to pursue their tariff policy with little hindrance . |
| 4 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 5 | On this basis , he said , ‘ sensible people ’ will see that striking a firm deal which produces a majority in the House of Commons and guarantees ‘ stable government ’ for a full five years ‘ is the best way to take the tough decisions and probably the best way for them , too ’ . |
| 6 | It means a government commanding a clear majority in the House of Commons . |
| 7 | Looking at political balance ( perhaps the most sensitive matter ) , the Conservatives were given , on all programmes , more actuality coverage than Labour and other parties combined ( 1,788 actuality excerpts of Conservative MPs on 971 occasions , as opposed to 1,241 excerpts on 851 occasions for MPs of all other parties , in the period analysed by Blumler ) , but this is not surprising as the Conservatives are the majority in the House . |
| 8 | In other words he was a successful prime minister , successful in his personal relationships in Cabinet , successful in getting the business of government done , again in the extremely difficult circumstances of having no majority in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Derby 's Government had no clear majority in the House of Commons , and as at any time , Palmerston could return to power , the significance of his remarks were not lost on Scott . |
| 10 | Labour needs to win an extra 94 seats to secure an overall majority in the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Change is unlikely simply because it could only be effected by a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | ‘ Strong ’ government is only possible , it seems , where it is conducted by a single party resting on a sufficiently large majority in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | For those who put their faith in the existing Union , sovereignty lies with whoever can command a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | Some say that this is still a ‘ jobless ’ recovery ; or at least , as Dick Gephardt , the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives , argued on May 11th , a recovery with no good jobs . |
| 15 | A coalition was formed in June 1757 in which Pitt ran the war , and justified his claim ‘ I know that I can save this country , and I know that no other man can ’ , while the Duke of Newcastle made sure that the majority in the House of Commons realized that their business was to vote money for Pitt 's military operations without too much fuss . |
| 16 | Assuming that the government of the day has a comfortable majority in the House of Commons , executive dominance over the legislature and control over the processes of decision making becomes possible . |
| 17 | This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful . |
| 18 | Since May 1977 Labour no longer had an overall majority in the House of Commons , depending on Liberal or Nationalist support to remain in office . |
| 19 | This can be contrasted with America 's state of affairs , where power appears to be continually shifting from Republican presidents , to an ever more powerful Democratic majority in the House of Representatives , to the conservative Supreme Court and then to more liberal state governments . |
| 20 | The 1931 result , of course , left a great deal of room for recoil , but even so , the average of these results , if reflected in a general election , would have produced a substantial Labour majority in the House of Commons . |
| 21 | N. Johnson , ‘ Constitutional Reform : Some Dilemmas for a Conservative Philosophy ’ in Conservative Party Politics ( Layton-Henry , ed. , 1980 ) , at p. 139 , stated : ‘ A relative majority in the House of Commons may rest on a minority position in the country . |
| 22 | Finally , the House of Lords provides a forum removed from party ties and considerations , where the experienced and distinguished perform functions of assistance , advice , continuity and , when needed , a measure of restraint on the popularly-elected transient majority in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | A Labour majority in the House of Commons should rally round the executive and protect it against the array of hostile capitalist forces , the Conservative Opposition being merely the front-line troops for the captains of industry , the financiers and the press barons . |
| 24 | Between 1910 and 1914 , 1930 and 1931 , and 1977 and 1979 ( the period of the " Lib-Lab Pact " ) , the party in office lacked a majority in the House of Commons but was maintained in office by a tacit agreement with one or more smaller parties . |
| 25 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 26 | There would be a concern to clarify the confusion which exists as to the " right " and " proper " principles for the British constitution today and then there would be an attempt to secure them against repeal or amendment except by some specially prescribed procedure that would involve more than a simple majority in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | For example , after the election of 1983 the Conservatives had an overall majority in the House of Commons of 144 seats and the Liberals and Social Democrats had only 23 seats . |
| 28 | But he was not re-elected to the council in November , for by then that faction 's aims and conduct were offending the moderate majority in the House . |
| 29 | Because of the distortions of the first-past-the-post voting system ( which are discussed in chapter 26 ) , elections in Britain have often provided one party with an overall majority in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | The power of Parliament will be limited where a government has a working majority in the House of Commons . |