Sentences with phrase «tight race as»

It was a very tight race as two teams battled strongly of first place.

Anyhow — more quality in the top 4 would probably mean a tighter race and I imagine our best chance of winning will be in tight race as we are unlikely to walk away with it any time soon.

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The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

In a consolation for Democrats, Jeanne Shaheen won re-election over Republican Scott Brown in New Hampshire in what polls had forecast as a tight race.

As Mashable notes, Nike won't be the only one who drops out of that tight race — more losers are inevitable.

Mark Carney was cast as the perfect alternative to Justin Trudeau by a tight network of Liberals who pulled out all the stops last summer to attract the Bank of Canada governor into the Liberal leadership race.

As Gasly's comments suggest, the nature of this tight restriction will creep into how the team approaches the next few races.

They will probably have to get past Arsenal as well if they want to finish ahead of the Citizens, but with the race so tight it is certainly looking possible.

So with both clubs embroiled with Leicester and Man City in a very real and tight race for the Premier League title, this is being billed as one of the biggest clashes with the spuds ever.

In a title race as tight as this one, the destination of the trophy is likely to be decided by small details.

Chelsea need to know they are beatable, otherwise they will romp away with the league, which is not as good as a tight title race.

«The race is very tight because Leicester City and Manchester City will be fighting as well.

However in in 1996, mid-way through their second season, money was tight and they were bought out by an Irish company known as Shannon Racing.

The 908 carried on however, and in Spyder form it was particularly adept at tight and twisty races such as the Nurburgring 1000kms and the Targa Florio.

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This season looks like being a tighter title race than usual with as many as six different clubs having the potential to win it, so doing well against those mai8n rivals could be vital.

During the opening race of the Paul Ricard round, Shwartzman was closing down leader Fenestraz as they entered the tight and twisty chicane, after a safety car restart.

Both Busch and Gronkowski are Monster Energy endorsers, and with the Daytona 500 representing the energy drink company's first race as entitlement sponsor for NASCAR's top division, the Cup Series, Monster executives brought the New England Patriots tight end to Daytona as part of its marketing activation.

Five of the eight divisions have a leader with a lead of at least three games, with the tight race between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings in the NFC North serving as the only other exception.

As opposed to the half - mile Martinsville bullring where the tight confines make contact inevitable and easy for drivers to use force to pass competitors, the 1.5 - mile track about 45 minutes outside of Dallas doesn't lend itself to similar kind of full - contact racing.

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They are still good to go in terms of the Playoff race as they are currently in 8th in the Standings but with a couple Games left and the Standings so tight they could definitely gain some ground over the last few weeks of the season..

Unfortunately the money for the programme became tight and from then until his retirement from racing 1970 he only sporadically appeared in F1, preferring instead to try and win the Indy 500 (one of the few things he didn't manage to achieve - as a driver, at least).

Vanderhoef was the early frontrunner in this race, largely due to his higher name recognition (recall he also ran for LG as John Faso's running mate in 2006), but he told me this morning that the contest is tighter than expected.

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

«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 he couldn't assess its impact on races such as the tight Nassau county executive contest between Democrat Laura Curran and Republican Jack Martins.

Republicans look at tight statewide races for governor and Senate as a potential harbinger of a backlash against Democrats that could trickle down to the legislative level.

If the results hold up after the absentee votes are counted, the GOP won't even need the support of veteran legislator John Parete (1038), who appears to have kept his seat running as an independent candidate representing the northwestern part of the county in a tight three - way race with Democratic nominee Kathy Nolan (1018) and Republican Cliff Faintych (748).

«As Hochul faces her first re-election, in a newly drawn district, against Collins, the former Erie County Executive, she finds herself in a race that couldn't get much tighter now and looks like it will remain a barnburner over the course of the next 11 weeks,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.

As Reynolds's fortunes change, he's gone from the guy in charge of doling out money to congressional Republicans in tight races to an embattled incumbent who needs his own backup.

Scott claimed victory as Florida's next governor after Democrat Alex Sink conceded an extremely tight race.

State Senator Tim Kennedy's margin is rising slowly as absentee, affidavit, and military ballots are counted in the very tight race.

As affadavit and absentee ballots continued to be counted in that election, the race grew tighter, eventually ending in a victory for Rangel of less than 1,000 votes.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, is generally pretty judicious with his endorsements, preferring to hand them out only in instances of 1) political expedience (like, say, the tight race for Westchester County executive where he would personally benefit from the defeat of incumbent Republican Rob Astorino, who has been mentioned as a potential future gubernatorial contender); or 2) almost certain victory by his preferred candidate; or 3) when his nod is highly likely to make the difference between victory and defeat in the 11th hour of a campaign.

The clashes came as the fractious contest entered its final week, with opinion polls appearing to show the race getting tighter.

Dr. Apaak, who is in a tight race against Mr. Azong for the seat as the 2016 polls near, may not care much who rejects his political opponent.

Redstate.com editor Erick Erickson told CNN that while the national media might paint the race as a tight one, the local press thinks Rangel is a safe bet.

GOP candidate Grant Lally sent an e-mail blast Monday announcing that the New York Board of Elections certified him as winner of the tight race against Stephen Labate for New York's 3rd Congressional District Republican nomination — but the declaration came as news to state board of election officials, who said they have no role in certifying the race's results not certified the results.

As a result, until the final weeks before the election, Democrats were outspending their Republican counterparts in many tight Senate and House races.

Republican congressional hopeful John Katko is criticizing Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei's legislative record from his two terms in Congress as part of the latest salvo in a race that is getting tighter, according to some national political pundits.

At least a half - dozen Democratic House candidates as well as several Democratic Senators in tight re-election races have featured claims that the GOP wants to either privatize or eliminate the retirement plan entirely in new television ads, and party strategists promise there are far more commercials to come.

Tim Farron, regarded as the frontrunner in a two - horse race, is thought to have as many former MPs backing him, but it is significant that two former party leaders are willing to give their backing to Lamb in what may emerge to be a tighter contest than previously thought.

The hotly contested race has grown tighter in recent months as the candidates spar over a range of domestic issues, including the economy and jobs, in an effort to woo critical swing voters.

As regular readers will recall, previous polling of the seat has shown a much tighter race with Lord Ashcroft's last poll in Hallam showing Labour ahead by one.

In the House, Democrat Rep. Pete Aguilar won a tight race in California's 31st District against Republican Paul Chabot, whom environmental groups described as a climate «denier.»

at first the races are a little tights but as time goes on it fits better on my body.

i'm thinking we should have hired you as our yoga trainer for when james was tight before a race.

When the nominations for the César Awards — known in glib terms as the French Oscars — were announced last month, I wrote that I anticipated a tight race between Roman Polanski's widely acclaimed Euro thriller «The Ghost Writer» and Xavier Beauvois's lofty Cannes prizewinner «Of Gods and Men,» with the latter just winning out.

More then anything Grid is a polished racing experience, everything from the opening credits to the tight controlling of your vehicles this game is as smooth as you could ever want.