Sentences with phrase «by tight margins»

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Polls ahead of the referendum had shown a tight race, but a projection for SRF public television showed the initiative failing by a clear margin of 55 % to 45 %.

(«Small businesses that have a very tight profit margin could be totally wiped out by this,» one blogger noted.)

Tight margins across the on - and off - trade also contributed to gross margin falling by 1 percentage point to 8.6 %.

But these tight games are often decided by very fine margins.

He's the team's top tight end and leading receiver by a wide margin.

This is likely to be tight, but back the home side and there's value in them winning by a one goal margin only.

This will probably be somewhat tight and tense all the way so it is worth looking at the winning margin market where newcastle to take this by a 1 goal margin will return a price of 5/2.

It should be tight so go and take a look at Fulham to win by a one goal margin.

Of course, even the best field campaign is only likely to move the electorate by a few points, so if Democrats want the 2012 data to be decisive, they'll need to spend the money, develop the messages and support the candidates who can get the margins tight.

If Dems can turn the national narrative around even by a small amount, margins will be close enough that their data - driven campaigning can swing some tight races.

Obviously it will be tight, and probably decided by a margin of hundreds at most, but remember that you heard it here first: Bob Friedrich, who has never been a staffer or a lobbyist, and is thus unknown to the City Hall cognoscenti, will win.

But it does make it harder when the margins are looking like they're going to be so, so tight, when you have undue influence being exerted by government.

Martins, the former mayor of Mineola, was first elected in 2010 when he defeated Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson in a very tight race (a 451 - vote margin), and then re-elected in 2012 by 4,452 votes.

He has been opportunistic, pushing through tighter gun laws after the shootings in Sandy Hook and wrangling the legalization of gay marriage just two years after the State Legislature had rejected the idea by a fairly wide margin.

While SurveyUSA and Quinnipiac show surprisingly tight races for Andrew Cuomo and Kirsten Gillibrand, a new Siena poll out this morning has each up by comfortable margins — Cuomo leads Carl Paladino by 33 points, while Gillibrand leads Joe DioGuardi by 31 points.

Unofficial results indicate Republicans will hold their narrow majority in the county legislature, the call for a constitutional convention fell on deaf ears by a near 6 - 1 margin and races in some towns were extremely tight.

11.30 am Daniel Finkelstein is not convinced the Conservatives will win by as tight a margin as they are suggesting: «If the Tory vote is up (as Labour say) and Labour has done sufficiently badly that it is contesting second place with the Libs while the UKIP and Green vote is hefty, it surely follows that the Tories must have a decent majority.»

For 2002, though, it was a toss - up with the final three cars and trucks getting plenty of votes, and the Altima and TrailBlazer winning by comparatively tight margins.

That margin has been squeezed since the crisis by ultra-low policy rates, tighter lending requirements and competition.

Overall, the dividend has been well covered by cash flow; however, for FY 2014 the margin was extremely tight.

A tight 249 pages, Seth Klarman's Margin of Safety was by all contemporary standards a commercial flop.

Upton won his seat by only 12 points in 2012 — his tightest margin to date — and the pipeline leakage issue has been «extremely salient» in western Michigan since the Kalamazoo spill.

But, if implemented in conjunction with the other tools and techniques outlined in this book, the likelihood is that the tighter margins will be more than offset by the higher volume of business and more certainty of future business, considering that tighter bonds will likely be formed with clients.

Say your client engages in a particular type of transaction that by sheer numbers is profitable for the company, but on an individual basis runs on tight margins.

These organizations often operate with tight margins, and you can help further their mission even in death by naming one as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy.

Here you will find lots of surprise fun (mandated sewer projects; 40 year old furnaces or frozen and cracked radiators connected to burnt - out boilers; single - pane wood frame windows in snow country; inadequate or completely missing or worse, outdated insulation; gutters broken by ice damns; etc.) but you also get the added challenge of really tight margins between purchase and sales price coupled with severely limited number of qualified and interested buyers.