Translation of "Eine knappe mehrheit" in English

In the final vote only a slim majority approved the report.

When it comes to the vote, there will be, at most, a very narrow majority.

Polls show that there is a slight majority in favour of peace with Israel.

A narrow majority perhaps, but still a majority.

Their majority is tiny.

A narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.

But the Republicans have only a narrow majority in the Senate.

The results of a survey showed that a narrow minority was in favour of reforestation.

Since recently, a slim majority of Norwegians feels it should.

A bare majority of Donald Trump's supporters say they've made up their minds.

A slight majority of 51.9% voted to withdraw the European Union.

Britain’s general election outcome – a narrow majority for the Conservative Party – was unexpected.

In a referendum held on Sunday a narrow majority of Colombians rejected a peace deal with the Farc rebels.

These four parties possess an exceptionally narrow majority: 102 members of the 200-member Parliament.

After a tight race, a small majority of the British people have voted to leave the European Union.

Well, a bare majority of the committee agreed with the Commission proposal that freedom to provide services should be granted within 18 months.

The committee rejected by a narrow majority certain proposals for compromise as negotiated under the stewardship of the draftsman.

These amendments were supported by a majority of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy, with the tax increases only securing a narrow majority, and the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party has now tabled new amendments which would upset the existing balance.

There should be a clear majority in the House for a change of responsibilities, not just a small margin, especially when, as at present, we have said two different things in two different amendments.

This shows that the margin was very narrow and that it may therefore be useful - and it certainly will be useful - for our Parliament to make its voice heard after those of the Heads of government who, in Tampere, lamented the attitude of the American Senate, pointing out that it represented a timely signal to those who might be tempted to equip themselves with nuclear weapons.

Their determination, which I welcome, has allowed us to persuade the Council to approve texts which initially enjoyed only a very small majority yet have been able, at the end of the day, to overcome any reservations.

Anyone would think that there had been only a very narrow majority in favour of the Eurlings report in committee.

It is probably the first time in the history of the European Parliament that a rapporteur has presented a report on human rights which, for good reasons, has been so fiercely criticised and has attracted such a strikingly narrow majority of votes (274 in favour, 269 against and 14 abstentions).

I very much regret that a small majority of the committee did not accept the reduction that I proposed in the threshold for classification as a serious breach.

It is equally evident that what claims to be the European ‘Union’ – a term I put in quotation marks – with its six doomed draft resolutions, none of which – this was last year, as you will recall– obtained anything like a majority, and with its immense jumble of useless and derisory pieties, has remained silent, with a passivity defying belief in the face of a war and a strategy that pits civilisations against each other, with the EU itself the first victim.