Sentences with phrase «slimmest margin of»

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.

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....

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.

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.»

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.

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.

As of Election Day, first - term incumbent Republican supervisor Marybeth Majestic had been ahead of Democratic challenger Lisa Lindsley by a slim margin of 22 votes, with more than 100 absentee ballots still outstanding.

24th July 2013 - After XCOM Declassified's Agent Ennis Cole was having to decide if he wanted to grab the gun or the bottle, the fans decided (by a slim margin of 51 %, that... Read More

Compared to the slimmer margins of Mario, where a hit means a precious loss of ability, and another certain death, the Sonic player, like a delinquent student, can quickly sense the lowered expectations.

With the difference of 11,608 - to - 11,607, Shelly Simonds won the Virginia House of Delegates seat by the slim margin of one vote.

Currently the House is majority Democratic, but by a slim margin of 50 to 48.

Not exact matches

Apple also expects profit margins of 38 percent to 38.5 percent, slimmer than the 38.9 percent expected.

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

Ko immediately ruled out food («Very slim margins and you make one wrong move and you're out of business»).

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

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.

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.

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

The x86 server business has become an industry of large volumes and slim margins — where one competitor's products are hard to distinguish from another's.

May 1 The margin of investors who are bearish on longer - dated U.S. Treasuries versus those who are bullish on them shrank to its slimmest since September, JPMorgan Chase & Co's latest client survey showed on Tuesday.

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

Boss Borje Ekholm's strategy of slimming down and boosting margins is sound, but lacks credibility as he was on the board when things turned sour.

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).

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.

However, heavy investment is required, which can lead to ongoing market consolidation as manufacturers of all sizes are forced to accept slimmer margins.

With the price of resins and other crucial ingredients going up, the company has needed to work with slimmer profit margins.

Profit margins on grain are slim, which means every extra cost matters, including the cost of transportation — and the relatively spread - out landscape of existing organic mills means many growers need to travel far.

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.

While consumers remain cautious and volumes, sales and margins are still under pressure, Watkins is encouraged by the response to some of the new products, particularly the - $ 2 slim - line cans.

The slump into the red triggered a breach of its loan covenant with National Australia Bank and a January 30 deadline to patch up its margins and provide a strategy to slim down its cost structure.

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.

Mr Bourke said the company was still selling the same amount of product into supermarkets but there was a shift from its premium Creative Gourmet brand to cheaper private - label foods, which it also sold into Coles but that earned slimmer margins.

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

KSig SO would advance by the slimmest of margins 73 - 71 and advance to the Championship Game!

They'd tack one more on with an empty - net and escaped by the slimmest of margins.

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.

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

Martin takes it over Vogt by the slimmest of slim margins.

Guys, just watch... if we win Sunday's match (no matter how slim the margin), that will be the end of our transfer window... As Wenger will deceptively make many believe that we have our «mental strength» and «team cohesion» (his favorite words) back.

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.

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.

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.

On fourth - and - goal from the 5, Murray ran up the middle and dove into the end zone, making it past the Tiger tackle by the slimmest of margins to take the 38 - 37 lead with less than two minutes to play.

But only by the slimmest of margins and all thanks to this wonderful final - lap overtake around the outside, which lasted all the way through the last few corners.

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.

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.

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.