Sentences with phrase «tight points race»

With three events left, it is still a very tight points race.

Not exact matches

Teams are taking points off each other so it is going to be tight all the way through and it is important to keep ourselves in the race for this busy time and into the New Year and it was a good way to start ahead of December.
Its tight in the race for a top four place, so we have got to dig deep against leicester city and get that all important 3 priceless points!
So it is still looking like this season will be the tightest and most hotly contested title race for many years and that means that every single point is precious.
The race for the other Top Four spots in now getting closer with just 4 points separating Man United, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool, Arsenal and Burnley, but after Arsenal's tight game at the Etihad and the demolition of Tottenham the Gunners look well placed to go on another winning run to try and close the gap with Pep Guardiola's side.
It was all about «digging deep» and getting that all important 3 crucial points, making sure we keep it tight with man city in the title race!
Louis van Gaal's side have won three of their last four Premier League games and are involved in a tight race to finish in the top four, a point behind City but tied on 50 points with West Ham.
The points they have been digging out have at least just kept them in the play off zone, but on goal difference only and because the race is so tight and there are so many form teams beneath them, a top six finish looks to be in jeopardy now for them.
At the midpoint of the season just 7 points separate 10th from the relegation zone and the title race looks set to be one of the tightest battles in years after a week in which top spot changed hands three times, so many teams could be looking to spend big to achieve their goals.
«Though most political ad dollars traditionally are spent after Labor Day, tight primaries and early spending on House, Senate and gubernatorial races have pushed local TV - ad spending above $ 311 million as of mid-August, up 45 % from the same point in 2004 and more than three times as much as in 2002...»
But most field organizers I've spoken with over the years talk about even the best grassroots outreach being good for maybe two or three percentage points, enough to win a tight race but not enough to close the gap if the fundamentals put you behind by a whole lot more.
After a tight race in 2012, defeating his opponent by 2 points, he easily toppled former state Speaker Andrew Romanoff by 9 points last fall.
A poll of the same size commissioned by Buerkle's campaign in April also found a tight race, with Buerkle holding onto a four percentage point lead over Maffei.
For example, while the Q poll and SurveyUSA showed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a surprisingly tight race with her GOP / Conservative challenger, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, Siena found DioGuardi has failed to gain any post-primary momentum and trails her by 26 percentage points (57 - 31 with 12 percent undecided).
The Quinnipiac poll that showed the race incredibly tight between Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino created a clear pressure point on Lazio to get out of the race (the survey also didn't include him), but two subsequent surveys suggested Cuomo has a much wider cushion.
While SurveyUSA and Quinnipiac show surprisingly tight races for Andrew Cuomo and Kirsten Gillibrand, a new Siena poll out this morning has each up by comfortable margins — Cuomo leads Carl Paladino by 33 points, while Gillibrand leads Joe DioGuardi by 31 points.
«While the race is very tight in Ulster and Dutchess counties, which will produce about one - third of the voters, Faso enjoys a 19 - point lead in the more southern portion of the district and a commanding 41 - point lead in the five northern counties of the district.»
The second contest — the Seizure Prediction Challenge — was a tight seven - way race with top finishers scoring just.05 percentage points from each another.
Less than one week remains before the presidential election, and all signs point to an incredibly tight race.
However, several GTLM competitors have received favorable changes which should make the final two races even tighter as the No. 4 Corvette C7.R leads the No. 67 Ford GT by seven points in the Drivers Championship.
Inside the crossover everything was stock except for a circuit board to control the flashing lights and a roll bar that gave the bright blue Scroth 4 point racing harnesses a place to secure themselves to while we were strapped in tight to the leather wrapped seat.
Additionally, in the tightest race in the study, the 2014 Hyundai Sonata finished third by just two points — 819 v. 821 — in the midsize car segment.
• Oliver Gavin and Corvette Racing teammate Tommy Milner retain the championship lead by eight points after finishing fourth at Watkins Glen • Milner qualified the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in the sixth position Saturday after a lap of 1:42.794 (119.0 mph) at the 3.4 - mile, 11 - turn road course • Milner took the first stint in what was a very tight battle between the GTLM cars, running between sixth to eighth.
Now take the above two points into consideration with track design that is incredibly tight and narrow and the core gameplay experience is just terrible, and this is without doubt one of the worst racing games I have ever played.
President of Career Directors International Laura DeCarlo, sponsoring the awards indicated that in many cases only one point separated the nominations so it was a tight race indeed — and through this competition to excel, our clients come out the clear winners.
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