41.   He moved closer to his goal this week, and if he succeeds he will have gained an assured parliamentary majority for the first time in many months.

42.   He must also lead Labor to a governing parliamentary majority.

43.   He reached his parliamentary majority only after a week of hard bargaining that resulted in a potentially unstable seven-party coalition.

44.   He is now backed by a solid pro-reform parliamentary majority.

45.   Her ruling coalition emerged from elections short of a parliamentary majority and she handed out a raft of plum ministerial jobs to win over allies.

46.   His government has lacked an assured parliamentary majority for many months.

47.   His ruling coalition had already lost its parliamentary majority before he left for Washington when two ultra-Orthodox parties quit the government in disagreement over the peace process.

48.   His efforts, which were widely applauded abroad, attracted defectors from other parties, giving the government a parliamentary majority.

49.   If Khatami and his reform allies can overcome the handicap of these exclusions and win a parliamentary majority, they may be able to diminish some clerical powers.

50.   In Canada, the Canadian dollar rebounded from early losses as poll results showed the governing Liberals were expected to retain their parliamentary majority.