1.   The Democrats had only a slender majority in Congress.

2.   The Republicans won the election by a slender majority.

3.   A new poll shows that a slender majority of California voters support a statewide measure that would allow expanded gambling at Indian reservations.

4.   Interest focused instead on the House of Representatives, where another slender GOP majority was threatened.

5.   The GOP has a slender majority in the House, and midterm elections usually favor the party out of power.

6.   The government had an uphill battle to pass its measure in the lower house, where it has a slender majority.

7.   The House has a slender GOP majority.

8.   To protect its slender majority, the Republican leadership must at least try to appease them.

9.   With new committee and subcommittee chairmen, and such a slender Republican majority, there are many more bases for lobbyists to cover.

10.   Critics charge that Major, despite delivering economic growth, is stumbling from crisis to crisis and fumbling the tough task of governing on a slender majority.