Sentences with phrase «by less»

Rangel defeated State Senator Adriano Espaillat in the primary by less than a thousand votes.

Since 2009, Democratic enrollment is up 11 percent among Zeldin constituents, while GOP enrollment has increased by less than 1.8 percent.

For any school or municipality that raises taxes by less than 2 % the state will send rebate checks to those residents equivalent to the tax increase.

Mangano won by less than 400 votes in 2009, and won by nearly 50,000 votes this year.

«But we have to stop defining success by less failure.»

The Poloncarz budget would increase property taxes on a typical $ 100,000 home by less than $ 20 per year.

[65] The issue became a focal point in the 2010 election, in which Grijalva ultimately defeated Republican challenger Ruth McClung by less than 10,000 votes.

Kennedy won Illinois by less than 9,000 votes out of 4.75 million cast, or a margin of 0.2 %.

Grisanti continued to run on the Independence Party line but ultimately lost that race to Democrat Marc Panepinto by less than 4 thousand votes.

In 2010, I took a seat from the Conservatives by less than 100 votes.

Paul LePage is governor because an independent candidate forced a three - way race, meaning he was elected by less than 40 percent of the voters.

Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney won his re-election seat in Congress this year by less than two - percent of the vote.

The last government deemed a secondary school to be failing if five good GCSE passes were achieved by less than 30 per cent of their pupils.

According to HuffPost Pollster's aggregation, Clinton leads Trump by less than 2 points in the state, which voted for Obama in 2008 and Romney in 2012.

Saffran ran for the northeast Queens City Council seat in 2001 and lost to Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, by less than 400 votes.

The longtime campus cop at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has been nationally ridiculed over the last week for his response to a mass shooter on campus — including by no less than President Donald Trump, who on Monday proclaimed that he likely would have charged in himself, even unarmed.

Information, therefore, was only supplied by less than a quarter of NHS organisations, and what data that did exist was patchy at best.

Age: 62 Hometown: Greenwich Occupation: Business leader, former U.S. Ambassador Background: Foley, a Greenwich millionaire and former ambassador to Ireland, is seeking a rematch against Malloy after losing to the incumbent Democrat by less than 7,000 votes in 2010.

Meanwhile, Democrat Robin Lois eked out a win by less than 1 percentage point over Republican incumbent Jim Coughlan for Dutchess County comptroller.

The reality is you'll not be voting on budgets that will raise your taxes by less than 2 percent this year.

But Espaillat, who for the second time in two years lost to Rangel by less than 2,000 votes, will now face a spirited challenge for his Albany position.

Victory, as they say, has many fathers, but when you win by less than two dozen out of 126,000 votes cast, everybody can take credit.

By that count, the election was decided by less than 1 percent margin.

Republican Joel Abelove won the race by less than 500 votes, a finish that mirrored the strong Republican showing across New York and nationwide in the November elections.

Cuomo says under his plan the state operating budget increases by less than 2 percent while increasing school aid and Medicaid funding at approximately 4 percent.

In another dead - heat race, Malloy defeated Foley by less than 1 percentage point in 2010 in the closest gubernatorial election in Connecticut in more than 50 years.

[3] In 2004 she ran for Congress, narrowly losing to then - Democratic Assemblyman Brian Higgins by less than 1 % for the right to succeed Republican Jack Quinn.

Tedisco tried to make the race a referendum on Obama, but with Election Day only two months into the president's term, the Democrat, Scott Murphy, drafted on Democrats» big 2008 win, and eventually won by less than a thousand votes.

The Nassau County seat now held by Republican Sen. Jack Martins has a Democratic enrollment advantage and has been a top target for Democrats since Martins beat the Democratic incumbent, Craig Johnson, by less than 500 votes in 2010.

According to projections from the State Comptroller, the rate of inflation will rise by less than a percentage point over the next year.

Democrats across the country lost by less than the cheatin» republican in Florida, but handled the loss with dignity and respect.

Espaillat came close to beating Rangel, 86, who has held the seat since 1971, in the 2014 primary and lost by less than five percentage points in the 2012 primary.

It will be Edinburgh's loss, for it will suffer by not gaining the best applicants, some of whom would be denied access and replaced by less able locals.

Bob McCarthy: «In a year marked by less than glamorous elections and predictions of more anemic turnout, Erie County's political contests are still generating intense interest from the most basic standpoint of all: Democrat vs. Republican.»

Hours before polls closed, Espaillat — who lost to Rangel in the 2012 primary by less than 1,000 votes last cycle — declared Rangel a «liability» for House Democrats.

Checks by Citi Business News at some major Oil Marketing Companies showed that petroleum prices dropped by less than GHc1 at the pumps after Parliament passed the Special Petroleum Tax Amendment Bill to reduce that much - criticized tax from 15 percent to 13 percent.

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The Buffalo Public School nudged out Nardin Academy by less than a point to capture the top spot.

In Copeland Tory support increased by no less than 8.5 points — the biggest increase in support for a government party since Harold Wilson's Labour government won the Hull North byelection in January 1966 (at the cost, incidentally, of a promise to build the Humber Bridge).

Even the Tories» promise to hold an EU referendum was backed by less than half (49 %) of those polled, while just over half backed the pledge to cut inheritance tax.

The WFP's raw vote is down in places, but on average it is down by less than the drop in turnout.

The television licence fee will rise by less than inflation, after chancellor Gordon Brown turned down requests by the BBC for a higher increase.

Except the attack was shoved a bit offside by less than successful play from Alan Johnson whose confusion over a few of the numbers obscured the clarity of the target.

Never mind that de Blasio insisted multiple times that he has no plans to draw more revenue from the tax by increasing the rate and that his proposed budget itself increases spending by less than 1 percent.

However, they will usually be surrounded by less radical individuals, or have formed coalitions with groups that share a common enemy.

We have committed nearly # 1.5 bn of taxpayers» money to go to Arts Council England (ACE) over the next four years, with the budget for funding arts organisations, ACE's core business, reduced by less than 15 per cent.

Buck previously challenged U.S. Senator Michael Bennet in 2010 and narrowly lost by less than 2 percent.

And he left a political flourish until the end when he announced that the welfare savings will allow him to cut departmental budgets by less than Labour's plans.

Mitt Romney won the district by less than 1 percent in 2012, but Obama won it by 7 points in 2008.

By less than 5,000 votes, he defeated Ceretto, a three - term incumbent who switched party affiliation from the GOP to Democratic in the summer of 2015.