They said the polls show a narrow majority in the state still supports the death penalty.
Support for the stimulus package is dropping from narrow majority support to below that.
And they're not going to forget those lessons, no matter who has the narrow majority in next year.
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.
President Barack Obama, a senator at the time, joined in the narrow majority voting to end the program after five years.
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.
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.
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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But the GOP's narrow majority in the House makes it difficult for the party to pursue an agenda that appeals to party moderates and conservatives, let alone to more than a handful of Democrats.
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.
He may also lose control of the Senate, which now has a narrow Democratic majority.
Ashcroft defended his record in three days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Leahy led during the three weeks that Democrats held the narrow Senate 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.
McCain, who attracted independent and Democrat voters to his presidential campaign, said he thinks the GOP can maintain or increase its narrow four-seat majority in the House.
They retained control of the New Jersey Assembly, though the Democrats gained seats to narrow the GOP's majority, and held onto the Louisiana governorship easily.
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.
"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.
They made much of the fact that, in Nixon's case, there was little doubt that impeachment would be followed by conviction in the Senate, whereas now it is almost inconceivable that two-thirds would vote to topple Mr Clinton (the Republican majority in the Senate is too narrow).
While Mr Bersani's narrow victory in the election guaranteed him an automatic majority in the lower house, he cannot govern without control of the Senate too.
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.
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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Carlos needs to make sure that the majority of his time is spent making great use of his narrow and exceptional skill set.
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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With state licensing, the majority of lawyers are forced to develop that niche regionally, so clients are searching for narrow practice areas within a narrow geography.
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