Sentences with phrase «only by a narrow margin»

In fact the only Plan B policy that Lib Dem voters like, and then only by a narrow margin, is borrowing more to spend on infrastructure.

Not exact matches

It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)

Both Chelsea and Liverpool only beat WBA by a narrow margin of one goal.

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.

Madrid's last four wins over Valencia have only been by that narrow margin.

This should be a decent competitive game and because a lot of City's wins recently have only been narrow ones, it may be worth backing the Citizens to edge it by just the one goal margin.

If he survives a vote, it will presumably only be by a narrow margin.

Although the economy formally grew by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, in line with expectations, this was widely regarded by analysts as confirmation that the underlying recovery is fragile at best, and that the economy has escaped a relapse into a «double - dip» recession only by the narrowest of margins.

The vacancies became a near problem earlier this month when the Democratic - led Assembly approved the same - sex marriage bill, but only by one of the narrowest margins in the bill's history, 80 - 63.

This first became evident from the 2014 council elections when Lab won more seats than the Cons in Chipping Barnet, and the Cons only held the council by the narrowest of margins thanks to stronger performances elsewhere.

The participants rated their own competence levels to be much higher when they won by a wide margin than when they did so with only the narrowest of margins.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

Things go wrong when Elisha Cook Jr's wife, Marie Windsor (Force Of Evil, The Narrow Margin), a femme fatale whose evil is rivaled only by her annoying stupidity, gets her boyfriend to try to hold up the crooks.

He found that while the portfolios with high yield bonds did outperform by a narrow margin, between 0.2 and 0.5 percent per year over the long - term, they did so with significantly higher volatility than the portfolio containing only treasury bonds.

The climate bill got through the House of Representatives in June, but only by a very narrow margin.

Don't try to get around this by shrinking your font or narrowing your margins — it will only make your CV stand out for the wrong reasons.