Example sentences of "necessary [adj] majority " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subsequent general meeting voted 397–227 for amalgamation , below the necessary two-thirds majority ( SE 6 September 19 ) . |
| 2 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 3 | Since an earlier election date would require the premature dissolution of the Bundestag by means of a constitutional amendment requiring the votes of the SPD to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority , Kohl on Aug. 9 abandoned plans for early elections and reconfirmed Dec. 2 as the election date . |
| 4 | In a subsequent vote to overturn the veto , the House fell six votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority , with 260 votes for and 138 votes against . |
| 5 | The coalition of the PNP and Frente Obrero di Liberashon ( FOL ) , plus the Union Patriotico Bonairiano ( UBP ) and the two representatives from St Eustatius and Saba , was reconstituted to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Staten and exclude the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) , whose leader , Claude Wathey , favoured independence for his island . |
| 6 | The Congress on Dec. 25 gave the necessary two-thirds majority approval to all save one of Gorbachev 's original proposals , after a contentious debate . |
| 7 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 8 | On May 13 the bill was approved by the Soviet of the Union , but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 9 | On June 13 the Sejm failed by only seven votes to reach the necessary two-thirds majority to override Walesa 's veto . |
| 10 | In the combined Congress , the PRI thus had the necessary two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution . |
| 11 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |
| 12 | Speaker Thomas S. Foley expressed confidence that this would be overridden , but the House — also on Nov. 19 — fell 12 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority in its 276-156 vote , also on Nov. 19 , when 43 Democrats joined with 113 Republicans in backing Bush . |
| 13 | The voting reached the necessary two-thirds majority , with 414 in favour and 95 against . |
| 14 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 15 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 16 | The General Synod of the Church of England on Nov. 11 approved , with the necessary two-thirds majority in each of its three houses , a measure to permit the ordination of women priests . |
| 17 | The Sunday programme 's poll follows another survey by BBC Radio 4 's Today programme suggesting that the opinion in the House of Laity is within a hair's-breadth of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 18 | Robert Naish must have been disappointed at the members ' Extraordinary General Meeting on June 5th when his three-part motion failed to get the necessary 2:1 majority ( For 125 , Against 103 ) . |
| 19 | No candidate secured the necessary overall majority on March 13 , and a runoff was thus necessary on April 10 , in which Richards won 57 per cent of the total vote against 43 per cent for Jim Mattox , 46 , the state District Attorney . |
| 20 | In presidential elections held on April 8 , Mario Vargas Llosa , 54 , the internationally acclaimed novelist and candidate of the Democratic Front ( FREDEMO ) , won 27.61 per cent of the vote but failed to gain the necessary overall majority . |
| 21 | None emerged with the necessary overall majority , however , and in the absence of agreement on a national unity government a second round run-off between the two leading candidates on Jan. 6 would be necessary , with the new President due to take office on Jan. 14 , 1991 . |
| 22 | In the first round of voting on Jan. 12 Zhelev , backed by the ruling Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) of which he was a former chairman , had unexpectedly failed to win the necessary overall majority , but obtained 45 per cent as against 30 per cent for Valkanov and 17 per cent for the third-placed Georgi Ganchev , a former fencing champion who stood as an independent , in a field of 22 candidates . |
| 23 | He also won majority support for early parliamentary elections , but failed to get the necessary absolute majority of all registered voters , so the proposal failed . |
| 24 | The voting on May 25-26 was inconclusive , with no candidate securing the necessary absolute majority of the 1,060 deputies ( eight seats in the Congress were vacant ) : in the first round Yeltsin won 497 votes compared with 473 for Ivan Polozkov ( a conservative Communist Party regional first secretary ) and 32 for Vladimir Morozkin , and in a second round run-off Yeltsin won 503 votes compared with Polozkov 's 458 . |
| 25 | In a secret ballot on the morning of Dec. 27 , the last day of the Congress , Yanayev polled 1,089 votes in his favour ( 31 votes short of the necessary absolute majority of deputies , not counting vacant seats ) and 583 against , with 117 abstentions . |
| 26 | Ratifications by the legislatures of Missouri and Alabama ( on May 5 ) and Michigan and New Jersey ( on May 7 ) brought the total to 39 , more than the necessary three-quarters majority . |
| 27 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |