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Thus we have the powers of a presidential type system with the automatic majority of a Parliamentary system.
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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.
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The voting methods in the European Banking Authority, a regulatory agency based in London, for instance, will have to be adjusted so that the 17 members of the euro zone do not have an automatic majority against the ten others.
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Breaching the 3% deficit limit would also activate automatic sanctions, unless a certain majority of Eurozone finance ministers choose to let it slide.
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The measure, misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act, would let a union win automatic recognition simply by cajoling a majority of employees to sign cards.
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At previous French insistence, such sanctions will not be automatic but subject to the approval of a majority of governments.
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He argues the Army's approach, leaving the majority of the piloting to the plane's automatic systems, avoids accidents and saves resources that the Air Force wastes training human pilots.
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The majority of such arrangements are informal and the families have no automatic entitlement to support.
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Because the majority of these arrangements are informal, carers often have no automatic right to financial support for the children's upkeep or are not informed of what support they are entitled to claim, says the report by the University of Bristol.
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While this gives the car added credibility among the enthusiast crowd, we suspect the majority of motorists will choose convenience over control and stick with the automatic.
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In fact, the vast majority of all U.S. firearms, both handguns and rifles, are semi-automatic.
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