Sentences with phrase «by a narrow margin of»

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

When the votes were counted, Mr. Van De Walle defeated Mr. Dent by a narrow margin of 274 votes.

Both Chelsea and Liverpool only beat WBA by a narrow margin of one goal.

Ed Miliband does slightly better, still failing to understand, but by a narrower margin of 46 per cent to 32 per cent (net -14).

The leader of the Lib Dem group on Bedford council, Nick Charsley, lost his seat by the narrow margin of just 48 votes.

However, when it comes to black voters, Quinn leads Thompson, who is African American, by a narrow margin of just 24 versus 21 percent — well within the poll's margin of error.

Among the most interesting developments Tuesday was that Carl P. Paladino maintained his seat by a narrow margin of 107 out of nearly 3,000 votes cast, with 18 - year - old Austin Harig taking 48 percent of the vote.

He lost the Brecon & Radnorshire seat at the United Kingdom general election, 1992 by the narrow margin of 130 votes, but regained it again at the United Kingdom general election, 1997, with a majority of over 5,000.

By a narrow margin of 208 to 201, the House agreed with him.

For the first time ever, the ACT proved more popular this year among test takers than the SAT — by a narrow margin of less than 2,000 test - takers out of 1.65 million who took each.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed John B. King as secretary of education by a narrow margin of 49 — 40.

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

The UKIP leader, and one of the most prominent Leave campaigners, appears to have conceded defeat, telling Sky News» Darren McCaffrey that he expects Remain to win by a narrow margin.

The Iowa Democratic Party is standing by the results of the Iowa caucuses in which Hillary Clinton apparently defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders by the narrowest of margins, The Des Moines Register reported.

However, that narrow margin will likely be erased by the inherent yield advantage of the Dogs system.

Many of our significant distributors operate on narrow margins and have been negatively affected by business pressures in the past.

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

Some of its underperforming stores have been hurt by high rents that have squeezed the already narrow profit margins that supermarkets operate with.

Instead, we recommend identifying a niche audience and narrowing your market by using clearly documented personas, which will increase the intensity of your appeal and ultimately drive margins.

However, growth came by the narrowest of margins as Wall Street tempered its...

The sharp year - over-year decline in Sanmina's non-GAAP EPS was caused by a narrower non-GAAP operating margin of 3.1 %, compared to 4.2 % in the year - ago quarter.

Instead, the Leave camp prevailed by a narrow margin, surprising a significant majority of market participants and commentators.

The Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the election, while the Democratic Party of President Obama held on to the Senate by a narrow margin.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

Preliminary results for 2012 suggest that total assets shrank slightly to 10.1 billion forints ($ 43 million), while operating profits dropped by 6 % as a result of lower interest income caused by narrowing margins and the early repayment of foreign currency mortgages.

It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)

This has always been held to be the latest of the four, though it is perhaps the latest by a margin so narrow as to have little significance.

Each of these matters was decided by margins that might be comfortable in politics but were disturbingly narrow when matters of the church's faith and order were at issue.

However the Royals have been relatively solid at home, losing just one of their six encounters at Fortress Madejeski and Reading have been unfortunate to lose their last two games by a narrow margin but it would take a brave man to bet against a thumping by Man United.

American Nathan Adrian won the men's 100m freestyle in the narrowest of margins, edging the favorite by just 0.01 seconds.

What it provided was a situation in which Pittsburgh could win the formula - off by intentionally playing for a loss and kicking a field goal to narrow Cincinnati's margin of victory instead of going for a touchdown that would win the game.

Mads Ostberg was desperate to set a new Colin's Crest record but he painfully missed out by the narrowest of margins at Rally Sweden.

In the pool, Martin Schweizer turned up the heat to earn a second silver medal of the championships with a time of 1:04.10 s, again missing gold by the narrowest of margins.

It may well have felt like Deja Vu to the Arsenal and Germany international star Mesut Ozil at Euro 2016 yesterday, because despite the attacking midfielder producing an awesome and bewildering display of passing and creative football that had Northern Ireland chasing shadows in France, his national side Germany could only manage to win by the narrowest of margins.

MVVC 18 Red holds a 12 - point lead in the 18 / 17s standings, MVVC 16 Red leads the 16/15's by the narrowest of margins and MVVC 14 Red holds an 8 - point lead in the 14s Division.

Yarnold continued to push for the Sochi win though and took it by the narrowest of margins, denying home favourite Maria Orlova by 0.04 seconds while Germany's Anja Huber Selbach took bronze in her last World Cup race.

They are a price of 6/1 at bet365 to win by a one goal margin in this with Chelsea at 11/4 to take the narrow win.

All of their Coppa Italia victories on the way to the last 16 have been by a narrow margin.

Carrying on from the narrow escape in 2011 when new Swansea manager Michael Laudrup managed to keep the club in the Primera Liga by the smallest of margins, Mallorca seemed to have ridden their luck too far in the early stages of the next season.

Mourinho then introduced his two most prized assets, in the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba into the game and United were pressing even further for a goal and they came close on a few more occasions as Ander Herrera and Ibrahimovic missed their targets by narrow margins.

This should be a decent competitive game and because a lot of City's wins recently have only been narrow ones, it may be worth backing the Citizens to edge it by just the one goal margin.

And in CA - 11 and KY - 06 Republicans are behind by the narrowest of margins,» Boehner wrote.

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

He took over the leadership of the Welsh Conservatives after devolution had been passed by the narrowest of margins (50.3 % to 49.7 %) in the 1997 referendum.

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

The corruption probe is thus occurring within the context of widening dissatisfaction with Ms Rousseff, especially after her victory by a narrow margin in the second round of the 2014 election.

But to Suozzi's chagrin — and to the surprise of Nassau Republican party leaders — Mangano pulled it off, defeating Suozzi by a narrow margin.

According to a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations, Agata was elected by an 8 - 4 vote, the narrowest margin possible to win a majority of the 14 - member panel.

Espaillat, who lost by narrow margins to Rangel in two past primaries, served in the Assembly before becoming Senator and is seeking to make history as the first member of Congress of Dominican heritage.

Both voted for Long Island state Senator John Flanagan in 2015, helping him secure the position of majority leader by a narrow margin over John DeFrancisco from Syracuse.