Sentences with phrase «slim margin in»

Although Obenshain was considered the early front - runner, polls showed Herring leading by a very slim margin in late October 2013.

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.

Updated 6:40 a.m. State Sen. Glenn Grothman has won the GOP primary by a slim margin in the only open House district in Wisconsin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seventy - three days after Election Day, Tkaczyk was declared the winner by just 18 votes — one of the slimmest margins in New York State Senate history.

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Altering their business model will require CE retailers to weather a dip in profits and / or a slimming of their margins.

His margin of victory in Michigan was even slimmer, at about 10,700 votes out of 4.8 million cast.

In the few years it has lagged, it's almost always done so by a slim margin.

In addition to providing a big sales boost to Amazon, AWS also ingests tech profits into a company that's traditionally run on very slim margins.

The Niwot, Colo. - based shoemaker reported sales of $ 363.8 million, up almost 10 percent from the same quarter in 2012, but the slimmer profit margins sent the stock down 20.2 percent on Thursday from the previous day.

Economists, by a slim margin, have been expecting the first increase in September, but others see a December hike.

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

It's worth noting that in Manitoba, this majority is by the slimmest of margins, and within the margin of error.

So far in 2015, slowing growth, weak traffic, and slimming margins have all contributed to a 60 % drop in LOCO's stock price.

It's also notable that areas where Mitt is strong, his margin over Santorum is huge, but the areas where Santorum is strong, the margin over Romney is not so huge, and often very slim, indicating Romney has more appeal to the Santorum base than Santorum has in the rest of the country, and this is being reflected in the delegate count, where Romney leads over Santorum substantially.

Given all the disinformation, all the campaigning, ads, and biotech money thrown in to support the amendment, it's quite telling that, while it passed, it did so by only the slimmest of margins.

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.

As got to the half, Team Zimmerman led by a slim margin, in a Game where neither Team could build a sustainable lead..

Team Valvassori clinched the # 4 seed by the slimmest of margins late Monday Night when they took 3rd place in the VBall tourney..

And if we need to defend a slim margin bring in Per instead of Bellerin and move Chambers to the right.

Ryan Blaney (nine points ahead of the cut off) and Jimmie Johnson (two points) provisionally occupy the final two transfer slots, though the slim margin means both could easily find themselves on the outside looking in when the Hollywood Casino 400 concludes.

Only way I am a fan of trading up is if by some slim margin of chance a top DB is there in the top 2nd....

Severally in recent times, Wenger has been deploying defensive reinforcement anytime we are leading with a slim margin and it has always worked especially at the dying minute of games.

The likelihood that at least six out of the eight teams sitting below West Ham in the table outperform them by a sufficient margin in the remaining eleven games is a slim one.

A slim four - point margin separates the leading quartet in the Italian championship with Napoli top with 42 points from 17 games, one point ahead of Juventus.

Since then, the club has survived and thrived by the slimmest of margins; first, a 2 - 2 draw in a relegation showdown with Sheffield Wednesday to survive the drop in the Championship.

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

Lorenzo won Emelec last month in the opening leg by the slimmest of margins but the Ecuadorian side returned the favour in Buenos Aires by the same margin.

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

Lamb's slim margin of apparent victory upended the political landscape ahead of November's midterm elections, and emboldened Democrats to run maverick campaigns even in deep - red areas where Republicans remain bedeviled by Trump's unpopularity.

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.

The poll suggests Romney has consolidated support among Republicans since winning the first nominating contest in Iowa by a slim margin last week.

The European Union observation mission in Gabon said Tuesday it noted an anomaly in voting results from the president's stronghold province that pushed him over the edge to win re-election by a slim margin.

But Lipton also recognized that even with the IDC on their side, the Democrats would be holding an extremely slim, one - seat margin in the chamber — and that's assuming they hold every seat they've got in the upcoming elections.

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.

The slim Republican majority that came in last year resulted in Mr. Klein losing a number of the perks and powers he had when the IDC provided the margin of votes keeping the GOP in control of the body.

«This is especially true in industries like retail, where margins are too slim to meet political expectations.»

The slim margin came in spite of Ball holding the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines in a ward that leans heavily Democratic.

Republicans have repeatedly mounted serious challenges in the district in recent years, and while they've always fallen short, they've done so by fairly slim margins on several occasions.

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.

Democrat Pete Harris, who ran unopposed in 2009 and won by slim margins over Republican Everett Glover in each of his two contested races, would have faced stiff competition this year from former councilman Vincent Orlando, a Republican.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» amendments.

Spence defeated one - term President Susan Kent by a slim 127 - vote margin in an election that is still being contested due to a ballot mailing snag.

The Democrats had just wrested control of the chamber from the GOP's hands, but the margin was slim enough that defection of a few key Democrats could have kept Skelos in power.

While the rules stipulate that he would need to win a bare majority, a slim margin of victory could, in reality, severely undermine his authority and leave his position untenable.

The Togolese, who defeated Ghana at the West African Seven's tournament held in Togo, saw their side trailed by a slim margin after they were beaten by...