Sentences with phrase «narrow wins in»

There are stats to back that up as well as Barcelona have only landed narrow wins in their last two trips to Bilbao.

Only behind Leicester City in the form table, thanks to four narrow wins in the last five league...

USA's Justin Gatlin wrapped up the 100m Diamond Race with a narrow win in 9.98 — the same time as that clocked by runner - up Femi Ogunode of Qatar.

Pigeon's PAC also squeezed out a narrow win in the Erie County Legislature's first district.

John Major had a very narrow win in 1992 and Alec Douglas - Home a surprisingly narrow loss in 1964.

Benishek's narrow win in 2014 made him an attractive target for Democrats this time around.

The mainstream Democratic conference appears on the verge of having 24 members after a narrow win in Nassau County.

Battleground District: GOP Sen. Frank Padavan eked out a narrow win in 2008, fueling Democratic hopes of ousting the veteran lawmaker this year.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying gunIn the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying gunin Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

Clinton's campaign was quick to caveat the results, pointing out that Clinton's blowout win in Mississippi and narrow loss in Michigan meant she would actually build on her already sizable delegate lead Tuesday night.

Right now most polls predict a narrow win for what's known as the «remain,» or stay in the EU, platform championed by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

He is behind Democrat Hillary Clinton in the latest national polls, but he has a narrow path to potential victory if he can win a number of key states — including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where globalization and free trade are hot, contentious issues.

When intensity wins out at the expense of survival, rather than in harmony with it, definitions and statements of exclusion narrow the scope of the society.

With many successes to learn from, and much new wisdom won through hard experience, we are now closing in upon the ever narrower circle of those still living «outside the circle of development.»

Starting with Richard Nixon's narrow capture of the White House in 1968, Republicans have won seven of ten presidential elections.

Narrow wins over teams from Andorra and Malta and a defeat to a Romanian team is better than beating Chelsea in the Community Shield?

The whole team has made excellent progress and has had a great season, with 3 convincing wins and one narrow loss in the South East League.

A narrow win would have been a wide stride in the right direction against a top - four rival who knocked out the slug - like heavyweights of Manchester United just days before.

But this week was the closest any have come, with Team Fischer right on their tails in a narrow 5 - 4 kickball win.

Liverpool are still looking like they have a hangover from last season but the results are starting to come for them, a narrow win keeping them in touch with us, while Tottenham, I hate to say, looked good as they beat Everton and stayed level on points with us.

The field has been narrowed down to eight drivers still in the running for the Cup after Brad Keselowski saved his skin by winning at Talladega Motor Speedway last Sunday, bouncing Casey Kahne from contention.

Brady is 21 - 7 against the Jets in his career, with seven wins in the last eight games, but New York has narrowed the gap.

The Oakland Raiders scratched out a narrow 27 - 26 win over the visiting Detroit Lions in preseason play on Friday night.

Michigan State has allowed opponents to shoot 45 % from the floor and in narrow wins last week over Georgia Tech and Arkansas — Little Rock was outrebounded by a combined 64 — 56.

Ball State opened as narrow 1 - point favorites, but things swayed in favor of the Huskies, who were favored to win by 3 by most.

ManU eeks out a single very narrow (and somewhat fortunate) win over LPool and now the publications are filled with stories declaring ManU top title contenders and lauding «in - form» Rooney as the best striker in the UK.

Giroud had little time to impress in their narrow win over Bulgaria but Lacazette started and did not cover himself in glory, which is another concern from an Arsenal point of view.

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

United's five game winning run also includes narrow wins over Stoke and Crystal Palace in which their goal was under siege for large periods and their winning goal over Stoke was offside.

11 of Barcelona's 24 La Liga games have ended in either a loss (2), a draw (3) or a narrow 1 goal win (6).

Win that and another shot at Michigan, a team that has two narrow wins over the Wildcats, would await in Friday's quarterfinals.

Arsenal have lost three of their last four matches in all competitions, with only the narrow 2 - 0 win over the thoroughly organised non-league side from the previous round.

Though they haven't played a competitive game since beating Spain in the Confederations Cup final last June — such are the burdens of hosting — they've won the last five friendly instalments of their rolling global tour, most recently a 5 - 0 thumping of Honduras followed by a narrow 2 - 1 win over Chile.

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.

As it is, Louis van Gaal's luck was in as Mata gave United a narrow win and that means that the pressure is still on us and City to keep going and pick up the points needed to make sure that United do not sneak in and claim the final Champions League place, but the question now is which of us will handle that pressure better?

Their only win in 10 games was a narrow 1 - 0 victory over Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup — a competition they were booted out of 10 days later when they lost 2 - 1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In fact the only bit of bad news from the narrow win over West Brom is that we have lost Gibbs as an option at left back, although as usual Le Prof doesn't think it is serious.

Our first step in creating a winning contrarian system was to narrow our focus to solely road teams by selecting the «Home / Visitor» filter.

Assuming that Arsene Wenger really is keen on signing him, the narrow win over Besiktas should leave the way clear for us, except that there is now another complication according to a report in The Independent.

After narrowing our focus to look at home favorites in low - scoring games, we found that teams fitting these criteria have produced a 198 - 140 (58.6 %) ATS record which increases both our units won (48.39) and ROI (14.3 %).

The clutch defensive effort spanned the last five minutes of the game in a narrow 18 - 17 win.

It was close to a no - show from the Gunners in the second half and Arsene Wenger cut a frustrated figure in the dugout, but who were the three architects in Arsenal's narrow win over the Magpies?

Man U hasn't been great in the last 3 games starting from the narrow win at Hull City.

But nothing in the last month, in which A&M went 1 - 3 with only a narrow win over ULM and switched quarterbacks while Auburn went 3 - 1 with only a loss at No. 1 Mississippi State, hinted that this was still a possibility.

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.

In my honest opinion, I think 3 -4-3 limits our players, particularly Ozil and other technical players.The formation is too flat therefore in most cases we will always have narrow wins unless we are playing on the counter.But hey, our playing style is based on moderate to high possession.Formations that favour possession based style are 4 -2-3-1,4-1-4-1, 4 -3-3 (holding) and for more technical players 3 -2-3-2 (3 -5-2In my honest opinion, I think 3 -4-3 limits our players, particularly Ozil and other technical players.The formation is too flat therefore in most cases we will always have narrow wins unless we are playing on the counter.But hey, our playing style is based on moderate to high possession.Formations that favour possession based style are 4 -2-3-1,4-1-4-1, 4 -3-3 (holding) and for more technical players 3 -2-3-2 (3 -5-2in most cases we will always have narrow wins unless we are playing on the counter.But hey, our playing style is based on moderate to high possession.Formations that favour possession based style are 4 -2-3-1,4-1-4-1, 4 -3-3 (holding) and for more technical players 3 -2-3-2 (3 -5-2).

That ability also tied in with our title wins and whilst the game changes and formations go in and out of fashion, the principles of engineering space when attacking and narrowing space when defending have existed as long as football has existed.

Arsenal cemented their place at the top of the table with a win in 2016, scraping past Newcastle with a narrow 1 - 0 win.

The march toward Ann Arbor continues, with another quality road win in the books, no matter how narrow the margin.