They said the polls show a narrow majority in the state still supports the death penalty.
It was a nail-biting finish, with a narrow majority of judges actually favouring a ban (see article).
Rumsfeld, where a narrow majority of the Court substituted its preferred detainee treatment policy for that of the president.
Sunday's vote showed a narrow majority of 57.7% of votes in favour of the king being allowed back from Switzerland.
The court decided by a narrow majority in favour of the Wik people: that pastoral leases and native title could co-exist.
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Mr Panday's United National Congress (UNC) won a narrow majority in the elections, winning 19 of the 36 seats in parliament.
Lula should be able to count on at least 60% of the lower house and a narrow majority in the Senate.
But the senators wrote that polls show "a narrow majority of Americans" believe torture can be justified as a legitimate way to gather intelligence.
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In opinion polls the students' demands enjoy the support of 70% of respondents, even if their sometimes disorderly methods attract the disapproval of a narrow majority.
At a provincial election last month Mr Charest managed to win a third term with a narrow majority (having governed with a legislative minority in his second term).
Resistance from opposition parties led to repeated delays in the bill's passage through parliament (Riksdag), but with the government holding a narrow majority, lawmakers finally approved the legislation in mid-June 2008.
If the Social Democrats were to win only a narrow majority in the Bundestag, along with their preferred coalition partners, the Greens, Mr Lafontaine might be dispatched to become the majority's leader in parliament.
And although a narrow majority remains confident in Mr. Obama's goals and overall direction, 45% say they do not have confidence, a number that has been growing since the inauguration less than two months ago.
Yet today, a narrow majority in the House of Representatives abdicated its responsibility by passing war spending bill that has no chance of becoming law and brings us no closer to getting our troops the resources they need to do their job.
He may also lose control of the Senate, which now has a narrow Democratic majority.
The Rehnquist court is often described as sharply divided, with a narrow conservative majority, largely because of a series of 5-4 votes on federalism, affirmative action, religion and abortion.
But if they can rediscover their old aptitude for the politics of opposition and, above all, if they manage to dredge up the right lessons from the murky electoral swamps of Florida they stand a good chance of turning a narrow defeat last November into a sustained majority next time.
The bill's stumble raises a larger question of why the GOP leadership decided to abandon a bipartisan approach and instead to try to ram a bill through the House despite its narrow majority.
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At present, the court has a very narrow, but highly active, conservative majority which has been working, most notably, to change the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
President Barack Obama, a senator at the time, joined in the narrow majority voting to end the program after five years.
"For too long, the police service has recruited the great majority of its officers from too narrow a stratum of society, and formal intellectual attainment has played too little a part in recruitment, " he says.
The overwhelmingly majority said that we were going to see a narrow popular vote win for the President and that he was going to win the crucial swing states giving him a healthy Electoral College win.
Political editor Nick Robinson told the programme that Ed Miliband needed to address the "deep anxiety" within the party, following his narrow victory over his brother, who was supported by a majority of cabinet ministers and constituencies.
The court took a cautious, somewhat narrow approach, affirming longstanding policies while acknowledging that the conservative Supreme Court majority in recent years has raised concerns over whether "the extraordinary federalism costs imposed by Section 5" -- in the words of the appeals court -- mandate continued oversight.
Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House (and no stranger to risk), thinks a daringly clear agenda would act as a rallying point for America's centre-right majority and could appeal to a decisive 55% of voters, not just a narrow 51%.
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These do not add up to an ideological revolution so much as a big shift in power away from narrow, outdated interest-groups and towards the interests of the majority of Japanese.
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