Indeed it was a close run thing as to whether they would support it at all. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
Some people, for reasons of their own, don't want you to know the truth about who's really running things in this often troubled little corner of the world. (niagarafallsreporter.com)
Was that just kind of running things really tightly, running the ship as tightly as possible, was it a discrepancy in the understanding of demand? (gonintendo.com)