Sentences with phrase «slim margin for»

The leadership qualities that once paved the path to success are now merely the price of admission to play in a high - stakes game with slim margin for error.

The slim margin for Coleman, far less than one half of one percent, triggered an automatic recount, the first time there's ever been a recount of a US senate race in Minnesota.

The hard - charging former CIA director was confirmed on a 57 - 42 vote — one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.

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For a discount retailer like Wal - Mart with slim margins, theft can be a serious drain on profitability.

This is becoming more important now because Republicans have a slim margin in the senate and one member, Sen. Ron Johnson (R - WI), is saying that he won't vote for the bill as it stands because it's not generous enough to pass - through businesses — and President Trump apparently agrees.

As for the Senate, the Republicans» margin of control is much slimmer (51 to 49, if we include the two independents that often vote with the Democrats).

A profit of $ 16.6 million in 2011 was transformed into a loss of $ 24.7 million for 2012 after slimmer export margins, due to the rising Australian dollar, and the accounting treatment of its shrinking equities holdings.

Europe's fragmented corrugated packaging industry is expected to enter a period of consolidation prompted by slim margins and firms» need for a wider geographical presence, according to Rabobank.

Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix by just under two tenths, a slim margin after stunning laps from both the Mercedes driver and his nearest rival.

Stage results: Marcel Kittel livened up a dull stage by edging out Edvald Boasson Hagen by the absolute slimmest of margins for a third stage win.

Arsenal's margin for winning the title is slim, but it exists.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the idiom «You can't teach an old dog new tricks», its the most applicable phrase when i think of describing Martinez, I'm not saying he's that old but the point i'm making is that he is getting older so the margin for error or correction is slim.

The final team to qualify for the Playoffs and they have done so by a pretty slim margin.

This one from Phoenix in 2016 included some wheel rubbing and bodywork contact for good measure, too, with Kevin Harvick beating Carl Edwards by one of the slimmest margins in Nascar history.

Arsenal will defeat Hull city though the margin might be very slim because its definitely not going to be an easy one for the gunners

However, the margins for error, especially in a Champions League group that may already be lost to them, are slim.

Spain have qualified for the last four of the ongoing European Under - 21 Championship after defeating Serbia by the slimmest of margins in Bydgoszcz.

Bloomberg stands in the middle of the road... It can be very dangerous as you can get knocked down by traffic from BOTH sides... Bloomberg PAID for his position and won by a slim margin... Best he attend to his OWN yard.

Four years earlier, Faso lost the state comptroller's race by a very slim margin to Democrat Alan Hevesi, who ended up resigning in disgrace thanks to the so - called Chauffeurgate scandal and then serving time behind bars for his role in a massive pay - to - play pension fund scandal exposed by Spitzer's sucessor in the AG's office, Andrew Cuomo.

Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Democrats took control of the chamber last year with a slim 32 - to - 30 margin.

As for the slim margin of victory, Heastie told Liz Benjamin at the Daily News: «I don't care if you win the Super Bowl by one point or 30, you're still champion.»

Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg won his controversial bid for a third term by a surprisingly slim margin.Part of the reason for his win may be that in southeast Queens, his Democratic rival, city Comptroller William Thompson, bested Bloomberg by wide margins in several state Assembly districts, city Board of Elections statistics show.

With the election set to be closest political contest on Britain for a generation, authorities are particularly concerned about any irregularities, given the margin of victory could be very slim.

If the IDC doesn't re-up their deal with the GOP it could be difficult for the Republicans to lead with such a slim margin in the chamber.

Even though registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the 23rd district, it's not uniformly red — voters there went for President Obama by a very slim margin in 2008.

It was the slimmest margin of defeat for a losing candidate in a Trustee race since 2001, when Republican candidate Henry Smith was defeated by just 294 votes for a third open seat.

In the GOP primary for the seat of retiring Rep. Dan Burton (R), former U.S. Attorney Susan Brooks defeated former Rep. David McIntosh by a slim margin in what was a crowded race.

After passing the Waxman - Markey climate bill in the House in the summer of 2009 by a slim margin, the appetite in Congress and at the White House for a bruising Senate fight eroded.

They also say they're being pressured to sell first - line treatment for less than $ 100 per person per year, which is not feasible given their slim profit margins.

This becomes particularly problematic as you get leaner and your «margins for error» with your calorie intake become very slim.

In the end, it's a split decision, but I'll rule the bout for a recommendation in its favor, even if only by the slimmest of margins.

Lachmann's taken my number one position over John Seale's Mad Max by the slimmest of margins, and I seem to be one of the few people who laud Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson for resurrecting Ultra Panavision cameras and lenses long lost to history in order to shoot a film that takes place almost entirely indoors.

The results of the Forum Oscar Polls for June are up and The Weinstein Company «s Carol leads every category this month; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay top spots are all held by the film but some by slim margins.

Using LSI it would still show close to the same profit for me as I'd make through Amazon, but I can imagine it wouldn't for someone using Lulu since there is a slimmer profit margin already on Lulu.

Even small changes in how we buy books could tip the scales and create catastrophe for brick and mortar bookstores, because profit margins are slim throughout the publishing world.

The touch screen is a perfectly good substitute for physical controls; it was as quick to turn pages by swiping the screen as it was to press the button, and both methods were faster than the Kindle by a slim, but noticeable margin.

They are still carrying DC and Marvel just not the single issues which is smart because the margin of profit is slim and unsteady while manga's bring in more money and if someone likes the series they buy all of them and so if you need room for them you just cut out single issues which creates more space for manga's.

The profit margin for print novellas is limited, so it can be hard for an author to justify the production of such a slim book.

The slim profit margins of books; the problems of bookstore returns; the quandary of Borders closing and Amazon forever selling books as a loss - leader; how to make people actually pay for content, and so on... And yet.

But when you throw a POD platform into the mix, the pie gets sliced further, so booksellers get closer to 40 % or even as low as 25 % — which is a much less attractive purchase for them, if even feasible with their slim margins.

UPDATE: The Washington Post covers the story on Wednesday, May 14, noting that Hachette may be forced to «relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further» and that, as Amazon's market share increases, «if there's no real choice of where to buy things, maybe there should be some other way to retain pricing power for those who produce goods in the first place.»

Like most anything this is probably part of a tradeoff whose other end is being more thin, more compact, and more sturdy, but for the purposes of this category, not being able to remove / replace the battery is enough of a fear (whether realistic or not) to give the ridiculously slim margin to the Galaxy Nexus.

Each time you pay your debts, your credit score will improve for the better — even if it is by the slimmest of margins.

In particular, it seems clearly false that bonds were a better hedge than stocks in this period, just by the simple fact that bonds only outperformed stocks for three years in this window, and only then by a very slim margin.

A slight increase in bond yields this month has forced RBC and TD to pull their mortgage offers weeks ahead of schedule, an indication of just how slim lending margins are for banks in the current environment.

Online lenders did beat that rate by a slim margin, but people who expect fast, in - person servicing should opt for a lender that operates local offices.

The winner this week (by a slim margin) goes to @questrade for the article on investing in ETFs [Do you trade mutual funds or ETFs?

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, New Westminster Registry, rejecting a request for double costs following a trial where a Plaintiff beat her formal settlement offer by a slim margin.

That said, we would go with the newer Android, and vote for the Mi 4i, but again, the margin is a slim one.

Its size is made up for in its thinness, however, coming in slimmer than the above - mentioned group by an often considerable margin.