requisite majority

Did the measure pass with the requisite majority of votes?

This process continued until a candidate emerged with the requisite majority vote.

The House continues to vote, for several rounds if necessary, until one member receives the requisite majority.

A runoff election is scheduled in the event that no candidate receives the requisite majority.

Bookmakers were giving odds that he would receive the requisite majority in the next poll.

Only five candidates received the requisite majority, and so a run-off election was held for the sixth seat.

The House continued to vote until one member received the requisite majority under a voting system known as the exhaustive ballot.

The requisite majority in favour of the Act was obtained and the debentures issued.

The military and civil machinery thus in order, the authorities now devoted themselves to the more immediate work of manufacturing the requisite majority.

(b) whether to sanction the scheme following its approval by the requisite majority of shareholders.

If no candidate receives the requisite majority, the roll call is repeated until a Speaker is elected.

The prefix 'proved' only means proved to the satisfaction of requisite majority of Parliament, if so recommended by the inquiry committee.

This ballot raised Ranrel's support to ten, but with Blesserel still polling five, the requisite majority had still not been attained.

Only the proposal permitting naturalization for certain adoptees failed to obtain the requisite majority of the vote and majority in 3/4th of the states.

Švejnar won the Chamber of Deputies, but Klaus led in the assembly as a whole and barely failed to achieve the requisite majority.

The requisite majority by balloting was considered a process for determining divine unanimity, that is, sanior et maior pars (Latin: sounder and greater part).

"Ranrel has polled the requisite majority of twelve votes and is duly elected to succeed to his father's honor as Lord Holder of Tillek."

Defections by representatives of PBS into Barisan Nasional gave the latter the requisite majority to form government in Sabah.

As mentioned above, once a Court Scheme is approved by the requisite majority and the court it binds the company and all its members (or the particular class of them).

The reason for this relates to constitutional law - the requisite majorities were needed in order to pass a Federal Constitutional Act, and they are not easy to obtain.

The amendments proposed by Parliament might provide the flexibility needed to achieve the requisite majority in the Council - so that could not of course be the Commission's original proposal.

In 1945, Pope Pius XII removed the prohibition on a cardinal voting for himself by increasing the requisite majority to two-thirds plus one at all times.

The figures reflect the fact that a Permanent Member of the Security Council can avoid casting a veto if the proposal in question does not in any event obtain the requisite majority.

The petition was promptly approved and a meeting of the creditors was held, but Radford failed to obtain the acceptance of the requisite majority in number and amount to the composition proposed.

With the two candidates having obtained the same number of votes, and the requisite majority being interpreted this time as 26 votes, the rules called for the President of the General Assembly to draw lots.