The ruling UMNO-led coalition kept its two-thirds majority thanks largely to the ethnic Chinese vote.
The bill fell one vote shy of the two-thirds majority an amendment to the Constitution requires.
The National Front lost its two-thirds majority for the first time in the 2008 elections.
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The cardinals will vote four times daily until a single candidate garners a two-thirds majority.
It would take a two-thirds majority in each house of Congress to do so.
Guatemala consistently came out on top, but it hasn't won the two-thirds majority needed.
Sri Lanka's system of proportional representation makes the magical two-thirds majority hard to reach.
Congress would vote on each increase, but a two-thirds majority would be required to block them.
The plan now goes to the legislature where it needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
Today, the combined population of Israel and Judea and Samaria leaves Jews with a two-thirds majority.
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Such appointments require a two-thirds majority, and thus would have involved an agreement with the opposition.
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PML-N under Sharif received a huge public mandate in 1997 and formed a government with two-thirds majority.
The two main parties discussed this inconclusively when they had the two-thirds majority needed for constitutional change.
When voting fails to produce the two-thirds majority required for a new pontiff, the smoke is black.
Because the bill requires changes to California tax law, its passage requires a two-thirds majority vote .
KPMG, the failure to achieve a two-thirds majority makes it hard for Congress to push though legislation.
His party does not have the necessary two-thirds majority in the assembly to rule on its own.
With only 10 eligible voting members left, the group has the two-thirds majority necessary to disband the conference.
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The state's otherwise puny Republicans have the power to block tax increases, which require a two-thirds majority vote.
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The last will need a two-thirds majority in Congress: public ownership of oil is written into the constitution.
Thus, a two-thirds majority vote needed for a guilty verdict has never been a likely outcome of the trial.
As with any veto, Congress could overrride the president with a two-thirds majority.
As for energy, any serious reform means constitutional changes, requiring a two-thirds majority.
The Synod needs a two-thirds majority in all three houses of the General Synod, of bishops, clergy and laity.
It needs a two-thirds majority in all three houses of the General Synod - of bishops, clergy and laity.
But at the recent conference they failed to win the required two-thirds majority.
Any amendment requires the approval of three-quarters of the states, plus a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress.
The Vatican's constitution requires a two-thirds majority to elect a new pope.
PPP, he will not have the two-thirds majority necessary to make constitutional changes.
They allow no right of appeal, and verdicts including the death penalty require only a two-thirds majority of the military judges.
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