I'd rather get 55-58 percent every year and work to elect a majority than get 65 percent and be in a permanent minority.

Nor can democracy be expected to work smoothly in a society with rigid divisions, producing a permanent majority and a permanent minority.

The elected members of this body were in a permanent minority and without any influence or administrative power.

But support for Mr. Gingrich grew as Republicans became impatient with their role as a permanent minority.

House Republicans see themselves as a permanent minority, able to stop things but very rarely to cause them.

Even a diminishment of massive revenue effected through nullification by the permanent minority would not eliminate these temptations.

In monarchic Judah the Yahweh-alone party were a permanent minority; although sometimes able to win over a king like Josiah to their cause.

This will leave Great Britain in a permanent minority and unable to protect our own interests.

It is quite a turnaround for Mr. Young, who once thought he might be the member of a permanent minority.

The Tories were therefore an effectively null factor in practical politics, a permanent minority in Parliament and entirely excluded from government.