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Not quite! "Governing majority" is used for both coalition and single-party governments. And to wrap things up on my end, just a couple more points. I suppose we can quibble about what constitutes correct usage of a word, no end, but in the examples I provided above (#15), the whole point was...

Pontios, this is what I'm talking about: His radical left-wing party, Syriza, won a majority in Sunday's general election, and he is threatening to renege on at least half of the 240...

Ευχαριστώ! Huge coincidence as far as I'm concerned.:)

Άσχετο βέβαια, αλλά μέχρι πρότινος νόμιζα ότι ο πύρκαυλος επρόκειτο για αυτόν που είναι trigger-happy.:eek: Domino we cross-posted. I can't believe we mentioned the same term! How likely was that to happen? :lol:

It'd be easier if I just referred you back to post#9 but I'll have one last crack at explaining it. As you are no doubt aware and as has been previously pointed out, the term "majority", when used politically or in the context of electoral systems, can denote different concepts and convey...

This notwithstanding, the term "majority" used on it's own (as per your examples in #8, for instance) is too broad a term that unless further qualified or clarified can lead to ambivalence regarding its meaning. Even in the right context (eg. government elections) it wouldn't necessarily or even...

Χρήσιμες είναι και οι διάφορες εκφράσεις με τις συνάψεις to govern alone / to govern outright. Π.χ. ability/mandate/support/right/enough seats/votes to govern alone/outright.

Quite right, Philip. Both Costa and yourself make valid points. In my hurried reading of the sentence the other day and largely being misled by the writer having posed the question with a "how could (he)" but responding with a "He didn't", I had assumed that the writer had sort of...

Το Wall Street Journal ξέρει καλύτερα!:D Votes were being tallied into the night, but a government projection gave about half the seats in Parliament to the opposition party Syriza, with a chance it could have outright control.

Το "he didn't" αναφέρεται στο "honestly serve his constituents".

Αυτό βοηθάει;

:lol::lol:

Όπως φαίνεται οι γυμνόστηθες επανήλθαν. Page 3: The Sun brings back topless women Αυτό θα πει κωλοτούμπα στο μάνι-μάνι.:D

How about "συμπληρωματικό πρόγραμμα"/"συμπληρωματικά ματς"?

Τη Γερακίνα την έχω ακούσει πολλές φορές και σε διάφορες διασκευές. Έτσι όμως ποτέ!

Επίσης: outright control

Επίσης: green space balance. green space: An area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational or aesthetic purposes in an otherwise urban environment. (Oxford dictionaries)

I think you might be.:) Quantitative easing in all its forms and guises is necessarily a gradual process dependant on continual observation and feedback from a whole host of economic indicators but I don't think that the inventor of the term, or other entities that have since hijacked the term...

Pontios, we've overcooked this big-time, so I'll be brief. Translation and economic consequence issues aside and reiterating Domino's thoroughly valid points (#19), one could also argue that the term "quantitative easing" primarily derives from and directly relates to the expansion of bank...

Όπως απεικονίζεται στην ιστοσελίδα εδώ.