How to Use supermajority in a Sentence

supermajority

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  • To break the Republican supermajority, Democrats would have to pick up at least eight seats in the House.
    — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats have held a supermajority in both chambers for the past four years.
    — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And that will require a two-thirds vote of each house — a high hurdle even though Democrats hold supermajority control.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In the Senate, Democrats fell well short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to convict Trump and remove him from office.
    — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That race and the one in the First Middlesex will have no effect on which party controls power in the House, where Democrats have long held a supermajority.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • At the same time, Democrats emerged from Election Day far from the two-thirds supermajority needed in both chambers to override a veto.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • With a supermajority, the hacker was able to have the Beanstalk tokens transferred to their own crypto wallet.
    — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The law requires a seven-eighths supermajority of the Legislature to pass any amendments to the law.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The GOP holds all major state offices and has a supermajority in both chambers of the state Legislature.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Whether that means a majority of the conference, or a two-thirds or three-fourths supermajority, the bulk of the conference should not be at the mercy of a small number of dissenters.
    — The Editors, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Changing the rule required a two-thirds’ supermajority of members to vote in favor.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That’s a tough sell for Democrats in a Republican supermajority at the Statehouse.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The proposal would require future amendments to get a 60% supermajority in a statewide vote in order to pass.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • New York’s governor and Democratic supermajority can’t seem to agree on taxing the rich a little bit more to help deal with climate change.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Annexation of any kind requires a five-vote supermajority to pass, as is the cast for most non-budgetary items that are voted on by the Mobile council.
    — al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • That gave the GOP a pro-life legislative supermajority.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 Apr. 2023
  • So far, López Obrador does not appear to have the congressional supermajority required to win passage of his electoral changes.
    — Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Beshear, a Democrat, may veto it, but Republicans have a supermajority in the legislature and could override his veto with at least 51 votes in the House and 20 votes in the Senate.
    — The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The bill now heads to the House, where Republicans also have a supermajority, with only a few days remaining in the year's 30-day legislative session.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Citing the outcome of Parkland’s high school shooter’s case, the state will consider requiring a supermajority vote of a jury for a criminal to get the death penalty.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2023
  • House Democrats last week decried the rules, arguing House Republicans through their supermajority hold the power to define what might be out of order.
    — Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Three-quarters of the nations could vote to change the rules and give a supermajority the political power to adopt binding resolutions.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The two sides reached an agreement Saturday, a day after a supermajority of union workers authorized a strike if both groups did not find common ground by Tuesday.
    — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of a tax cut that’s equal across the board has little support among the chamber’s Democratic supermajority, despite being one of the Democratic governor’s longtime goals.
    — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • And as a reminder: State Issue 1, if voters approve it, would amend the state constitution to require future amendments to get a 60% supermajority in a statewide vote in a future in order to pass.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 24 July 2023
  • Should both Democrats’ victories ultimately hold, the party is poised to grow its supermajority in the chamber.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The balance of power remains the same: Republicans have the supermajority in both chambers.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2022
  • With an overwhelming supermajority of these crews demanding an end to ‘the way VFX has always been,’ this is a clear sign that our campaign is not about one studio or corporation.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
  • With a supermajority having signed union cards, the group is also prepared to file a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Not only did Maryland elect women or people of color to all of the state’s top offices, but Democrats managed to pick up seats in the House and Senate chambers, further cementing their supermajority.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2023

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