Sentences with phrase «slim margin over»
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.
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A recent working paper from the University of Oxford says that every Olympic Games from the past 50 years has gone over budget — and not by slim margins.
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.
Martin takes it over Vogt by the slimmest of slim margins.
However, some of the margins look very slim, not just over the Tories but over UKIP.
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.
She defeated Wu by more than 111,000 votes, a slimmer margin than Cuomo's victory over Teachout.
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.
By a slim margin, Washington voters have approved Initiative 1240, which will allow up to 40 charter schools to open here over the next five years.
I - 1240 passed by a slim margin statewide in November, with just over 50 percent of the vote.
The Senate has passed a bipartisan version and, by a slim margin, Republicans in the House did, too, although conservatives are divided over what a new law should look like and even whether there should be a Department of Education.
Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»