Sentences with phrase «decided by a narrow margin»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said the hearing was unusually long, due to the narrow margin by which the results were decided.

This may not seem huge, but many presidential elections in the United States have been decided by margins narrower than that.

Whatever the fate of the Race to the Top, round two promises to end with winners and losers being decided by the narrowest of margins, making every point in the competition's 500 - point grading scale count.

With 51 % of the votes, fans have decided by an incredibly narrow margin to have Agent Ennis Cole grab the bottle instead of the gun.

Unlike cases decided by narrow 5 - 4 margins or those in which justices differed over the reasoning, Chief Justice John Roberts» cellphone opinion was notable for «the emphatic, emphatic message from the court that digital is different,» said Jeffrey Fisher, the Stanford University law professor who successfully argued one of the two cellphone cases.