Sentences with phrase «decisive margin»

Efforts to unbind delegates pledged to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee failed by decisive margins during a contentious meeting of the GOP convention's Rules Committee.

I really don't like the idea of Maloney or any other congressman showing up in my congressional district to speak against the resident colleague, who some may recall was elected by a fairly decisive margin only last November.

By five - to - one, the public wants control orders to stay, a margin that rises to almost eight - to - one among Conservatives, and is still decisive margin of more than three - to - one among Liberal Democrats.

It is fairly surprising that many of our readers are opting into the Kobo ecosystem by a very decisive margin.

Shown below is one of the deals that contributed strongly to Argentina's loss to the new champions by the decisive margin of 180 - 74 International Match Points.

The team of (L - R in photo) Matthew Langton, Ciprian Zahan, Alex Smith and Charlie Birch clocked an impressive score of 4661 between them, finishing ahead of Warwick on 4608 and Nottingham on 4430 with a decisive margin of victory.

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious...

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious jolt.

Despite the challenge from Republican Matt Doheny in 2012 — who had the advantage of no Conservative Party spoiler in the race — Owens was able to win by a decisive margin on Election Day.

The win by a decisive margin of 57 percent to 40 percent ended an intense, and at times nasty, contest.

Pataki made up for a softer performance in New York City by running up a decisive margin outside of it, especially among upstaters disenchanted with Cuomo.

But in the Guardian / ICM poll, the Tories» team is most trusted on economic management, with Cameron and Osborne now beating Ed Miliband and Ed Balls on this score by 40 % to 22 %, a decisive margin.

«Bottom line: Congressman Richard Hanna is well positioned to win the Republican primary election by a decisive margin,» pollsters John McLaughlin and Rob Schmidt wrote in a memo with the survey.

In 2008, members of the public supported the generic right of religious students to form clubs by a decisive margin: 58 % favored them, while only 10 % opposed them, the rest taking a neutral position.

On March 19, 2004, the proposal was ratified by a decisive margin (59 percent to 41 percent) of union members, with 2,700 of the union's 3,200 voters — well over half of the district's 4,500 teachers — casting votes.

No wonder then that Audi Australia MD Andrew Doyle believes the new model, which is due to go on sale in September, can outsell its predecessor by a decisive margin.

Going forward we will likely see digital news surpassing the printed form by a decisive margin as companies like Google and Apple have started their own digital newsstands.

In April 1999, you won reelection to the court by a decisive margin in a contest that an editorial published in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel characterized as «the Supreme Court campaign from hell; the political equivalent of death by 1,000 cuts; a black hole of intrigue and stealth, sucking whatever good is left in politics into the mire of negative campaigning.»