So this time, they stuck it in a budget bill, which only needs a simple majority.
After all a First Minister without a majority needs to keep his options open.
Mr Harper's campaign pitch is that he needs a parliamentary majority in order to sustain the country's recovery from recession.
Or even lack of innovation, where the evolution of the product falls behind the needs of the majority (Myspace, anyone?).
The vast majority needs advertising to produce the revenues and profits that help journalists live to report, write and edit another day.
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The Obama strategy is to do the same thing, leveraging liberal media bias, the latest technology, robust data and grassroots community organizing techniques, to smear the Republican Party as extremist, out of touch and disconnected from the needs of the majority of Americans.
In the U.S., a merger needs only a simple majority of shareholders to be approved.
The Buddhist-backed New Komeito's 24 upper-house seats would give Mr Obuchi the majority he needs.
His Likud-Yisrael Beitenu bloc won 31 seats in the 120-seat parliament, far short of the 61-seat majority he needs.
The opposition has enough votes to deprive the government of the majority it needs to override a presidential veto.
If the result holds, Kenyatta would win the election without a runoff, as the victor needs only a simple majority.
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If Mr Sharif can boost his support in Sindh's assembly, he will come closer to reaching the two-thirds majority he needs.
Mr Sanader is now seeking coalition partners to give him the extra few seats he needs for a solid majority in parliament.
States opting out of Medicaid could provide a similar limited-benefit health insurance plan to meet the basic health care needs of the vast majority of the poor.
He survived, but in the long run this defeat augurs ill: though Mr Barak was directly elected, the prime minister still needs a stable parliamentary majority to govern.
Even with the help of Mr Karadzic's former ruling party and other hardliners, it can collect only 33, well under the majority it needs to form a government.
The 192, 000 new jobs created in February is a long way off of what the economy needs to get the majority of Americans working in 2007 collecting a paycheck again.
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Even if he were to enter into a formal coalition with the leftish New Democratic Party (NDP), which won 19 seats, he would still be one seat short of the majority he needs.
Although Bush may never convince a majority of voters that his record is strong in those areas, he needs to try to convince a solid majority that he has performed as well as possible given a variety of challenges: the stock market bursting and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the case of the economy, and bad intelligence in the case of Iraq.
The plan now goes to the legislature where it needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
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.
Moreover, to win an overall majority, Labour needs a swing of 4.3%, which is higher than it has achieved in any election since 1945.
The federal court system, long on tradition and resistant to change, needs to join the overwhelming majority of state courts which allow video coverage of judicial proceedings.
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The bill now needs to be approved by a majority of the state congresses.
Yet the opportunity is immense: According to research from Statista, consumers travel to six stores for the majority of their shopping needs.
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Legislative elections are scheduled for June 10 and 17, and Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement party, known by its French acronym UMP, needs to hold on to its majority in parliament if it wants to be sure of pushing through his plans.
Furthermore the country has already financed the majority of the funding it needs this year.
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