Sentences with phrase «very narrow win»

John Major had a very narrow win in 1992 and Alec Douglas - Home a surprisingly narrow loss in 1964.

Ward 6 — Incumbent Democrat Elisa Ball squeaked out a very narrow win over GOP challenger Joe Corcoran, 288 - 266.

Last time these two meet was back in September 2017 when Manchester City absolutely dominated City at Stamford Bridge and although they scoreline suggest a very narrow win, it was anything but that.

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ManU eeks out a single very narrow (and somewhat fortunate) win over LPool and now the publications are filled with stories declaring ManU top title contenders and lauding «in - form» Rooney as the best striker in the UK.

Middlesbrough — 80/1 As very narrow favourites to win the Football League Championship, and thus reclaim a place in the Premier League, Middlesbrough are also considered the most likely Championship club to win the EFL Cup.

While they're scoring enough goals at the minute, in the latter stages of the league and in the cups they'll need to protect narrow wins, and that's when the keeper needs to be at his very best.

In what was very much a game of two halves, Manchester United recorded a narrow win over Fulham where both Robin Van Persie and Shinji Kagawa got off the mark on their home début.

«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.

Republicans regained control of the Senate in 2010 after winning two very narrow races in Buffalo and on Long Island.

There are plenty of Tory MPs who, despite a narrow win for their party, would be very cross with Cameron for failing to deliver a majority again.

Joe Howells stood as an Independent against the official Labour candidate and won by a very narrow margin.

In October 1974 Labour won a narrow majority, there was record inflation, high unemployment, massive Conservative Local Election & By Election victories followed by the Winter of Discontent and yet while Labour lost, their total vote was very similar to that of the 1974 General Elections and it was more down to increased turnout for the Conservatives and collapse of the Liberals.

Relaxed, thoughtful and highly literate — in a recent academic article he cited Hume, Joyce and Beckett along with Nobel Prize - winning physicists Richard Feynman and Niels Bohr — McEuen is a man of wide - ranging interests who has narrowed his scientific focus to the very, very small.

This race looks closer even than Supporting Actress, with odds - makers having Her as a very, very narrow favorite — the film's only real shot for a major win.

When Group B rally cars were legislated out of the World Rally Championship at the end of the 1986 season, Lancia needed a production - based alternative to tackle Group A. Key technologies from the Delta S4 Group B, namely four - wheel drive and turbocharging, were then applied to the narrow - bodied Delta HF 4WD to create a very short - lived (yet able) road car and, for 1987, a WRC championship - winning rally car.

There are no difficulty levels, although the track design and requirement of precise cornering in order to retain momentum is all that is needed for very close wheel - to - wheel racing were a single mistake when approaching a corner can be the difference between first and anywhere from second to fourth, while the balanced gameplay actually makes the close racing entertaining instead of frustrating even when there is an unbelievably narrow margin between winning and being a runner - up.