Neither National nor Labour had enough support to govern alone.

They had consistently failed to push through reforms when governing alone.

In this case, a grand coalition may occur even when one party has enough seats to govern alone.

At first, it seemed that de Valera would attempt to govern alone in a minority government.

The closest either party has come to governing alone was the 2011 election, when National won 59 seats, just 2 short of a majority.

When William went to military campaigns, however, she governed alone.

He leaves himself a little bit of wriggle room, and does not say "enough to govern alone".

And since the politicians there govern by force alone, we must not mince our words to them.

Unlike other democracies, no group in Lebanon can govern alone.

Neither could govern alone, and the conditions for governing together no longer existed.