Sentences with phrase «of tight races»

Sen. Wellstone and former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman had been involved in one of a handful of tight races that make next week's outcomes particularly tough to predict.

As Mashable notes, Nike won't be the only one who drops out of that tight race — more losers are inevitable.

The National League has a bit of a tighter race, with the surprisingly good DBacks» leader, Paul Goldschmidt, at the top of the list at +150.

With just a quintet of games remaining in the Championship regular season, it's one of the tightest races for promotion ever.

After a recount and the counting of paper ballots, he was declared the winner of that tight race in December.

GOP candidate Grant Lally sent an e-mail blast Monday announcing that the New York Board of Elections certified him as winner of the tight race against Stephen Labate for New York's 3rd Congressional District Republican nomination — but the declaration came as news to state board of election officials, who said they have no role in certifying the race's results not certified the results.

Not exact matches

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

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 %.

A rags - to - riches candidate — and one of Fortune's 50 World's Greatest Leaders — is in a tight race to become the leader of the world's fourth - largest nation

When the presidential campaign results confirmed a tighter race than most expected, an influx of people decided to look up Canada's immigration site, causing the website to momentarily crash.

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

Now he's back and polls show him in a tight race for comptroller, the elected chief financial officer and auditor of the nation's largest city.

LAS VEGAS / COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were locked in a tight race in Nevada on Saturday, with early results showing Clinton with a slight edge over Sanders with 27 percent of precincts reporting.

Still, though, the majority of votes have not been cast so there is a chance that the election will proceed and if it does, it's going to be a tight race.

Mark Carney was cast as the perfect alternative to Justin Trudeau by a tight network of Liberals who pulled out all the stops last summer to attract the Bank of Canada governor into the Liberal leadership race.

The CNBC All - America Survey shows a tight race with 25 percent of voters undecided, including 14 percent who right now choose «neither» candidate.

In rural ridings where NDP candidates were elected in tight races, the low 20 percent threshold in Ms. Aheer's Bill 206 would equal almost the same amount of votes received by Wildrose candidates in the recent election.

But Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, his chief opponent in the tight race to replace Ben Bernanke at the helm of the U.S. central bank, is not exactly struggling financially.

Singh's decisive victory shocked observers who expected a much tighter race along with several rounds of voting.

The AP called the tight race a few minutes later, and the pain was instead felt by Newman and the likes of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Emily's List, and Gloria Steinem — all of whom had endorsed Newman and together poured millions into this rare effort to oust a veteran incumbent from a safe seat.

The later slate of coverage was almost entirely be dedicated to a game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, who are in the middle of a tight NFC East race.

Teams are taking points off each other so it is going to be tight all the way through and it is important to keep ourselves in the race for this busy time and into the New Year and it was a good way to start ahead of December.

Formula 1 has raced on a wide variety of race tracks since its inception in 1950, from tight and twisty street circuits to undulating old - school venues and airfield runways.

As Gasly's comments suggest, the nature of this tight restriction will creep into how the team approaches the next few races.

The title race is tighter than a gnat's chuff and with Leicester City and Tottenham already above us, even though the spuds are only in second place due to their better goal difference, we really can not afford to give any ground in the next round of games.

Growing up in Las Vegas racing at The Bullring, a tight.375 - mile oval, Busch developed a reputation for muscling competitors out of the way.

Following the blocks of Kennedy and tight end Roland Williams, Garner found an alley, raced to the sideline and sped untouched to the end zone.

They will probably have to get past Arsenal as well if they want to finish ahead of the Citizens, but with the race so tight it is certainly looking possible.

So with both clubs embroiled with Leicester and Man City in a very real and tight race for the Premier League title, this is being billed as one of the biggest clashes with the spuds ever.

In a title race as tight as this one, the destination of the trophy is likely to be decided by small details.

Anyhow — more quality in the top 4 would probably mean a tighter race and I imagine our best chance of winning will be in tight race as we are unlikely to walk away with it any time soon.

It had been one of the tightest of Olympic races; only.18 of a second separated Lee - Gartner's gold medal from Kronberger's fifth place.

Anyway the race for the top 4 places is tight and although we have a bit of a breather, we must keep our focus after the break and keep on the good run.

Then stories will appear about tighter security at tracks and in - house investigations, but all that will merely be a matter of locking the barns after the races have been stolen.

It's only slightly less troubling when the quarterback doing the kicking is one of the league's best offensive generals, capable of putting a middling roster on his back when the race for the playoffs gets tight.

The first couple of races have definitely indicated we're in for a tight battle this season between Mercedes and Ferrari.

If we focus too much on the FA cup, with a Champions League double - header with Monaco coming up and with the race for the top four of the Premier League looking tighter than ever, it might cost us.

During the opening race of the Paul Ricard round, Shwartzman was closing down leader Fenestraz as they entered the tight and twisty chicane, after a safety car restart.

Both Busch and Gronkowski are Monster Energy endorsers, and with the Daytona 500 representing the energy drink company's first race as entitlement sponsor for NASCAR's top division, the Cup Series, Monster executives brought the New England Patriots tight end to Daytona as part of its marketing activation.

During race two of the ACTC (TCP) series at the Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez, two drivers towards the back of the pack collided on the entry to a tight corner.

Five of the eight divisions have a leader with a lead of at least three games, with the tight race between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings in the NFC North serving as the only other exception.

Sadly that means we won't get to see Maldonado drinking the milk after winning the Indy 500 (because obviously he would), but the prospect of Pastor on some of the tight, bumpy and unforgiving street tracks IndyCar races is something to be excited about.

As opposed to the half - mile Martinsville bullring where the tight confines make contact inevitable and easy for drivers to use force to pass competitors, the 1.5 - mile track about 45 minutes outside of Dallas doesn't lend itself to similar kind of full - contact racing.

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The football season is screwing itself tighter and tighter, or at least it would be, were it not for the lack of excitement in most of Europe's title races.

Part of the reason why the race is considered so tight is because almost all the participants have been historically strong long range shooters.

They are still good to go in terms of the Playoff race as they are currently in 8th in the Standings but with a couple Games left and the Standings so tight they could definitely gain some ground over the last few weeks of the season..

Unfortunately the money for the programme became tight and from then until his retirement from racing 1970 he only sporadically appeared in F1, preferring instead to try and win the Indy 500 (one of the few things he didn't manage to achieve - as a driver, at least).

While they're not so far ahead of sixth - place Toronto — this is a tight five - team race behind the Montreal superclub — they still, knock wood, are a vast improvement over last year when they struggled to finish fifth.

In the AL, there have generally been tight races but a lack of totally dominant teams at the top.