Sentences with phrase «win tight races»

Last week we talked about one aspect of the Democrats» plan to confound conventional wisdom and win tight races in 2014: their online - funded TV...

So Arsenal are still the side that he would prefer to win this tight race for the EPL trophy and although the England international midfielder is set to spend the whole season with the Cherries, at least, he will soon get the chance to help the Gunners in our attempt to catch and overhaul the teams above us in the table.

Turns out Chan is politically active and served on the transition team of incoming Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan, who just won a tight race in Bay Ridge Brooklyn last month.

In our initial analysis of Indiana Senate races, we find just five races that have the potential to flip to the Democrats: The open SD26 being vacated by State Sen. Doug Eckerty in the Muncie / Anderson area; SD 29 in the Indianapolis / Carmel area where State Sen. Mike Delph just won a spirited primary; SD38 in the Terre Haute / Brazil area that went to the GOP four years ago; and the twin SDs 45 and 46 in the Jeffersonville / Clark County area where Sens. Ron Grooms and Jim Smith both won tight races in 2014.

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.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Democratic candidate Alice Cancel won a tight race in the special election for disgraced former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's 65th District seat.

Sheldon Silver's chosen successor, Democrat Alice Cancel, has won a tight race in a special election to fill the shamed former speaker's Assembly seat — beating back a strong challenge from Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party ballot.

Marisol Alcantara, the handpicked successor of state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who won the primary for Rangel's old seat, won a tight race where she got 693 more votes than Jackson, who was in third place, and 572 more votes than second - place Micah Lasher, chief of staff to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

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.»

Moore won a tight race for the firm's managing partner crown earlier this week, edging aside Asia managing partner Marc Harvey and litigation head Michael Bennett to be selected by the partnership board to succeed incumbent Simon Davies.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

I think it was Brian Clough that once said that in a tight race, the team with the best keeper wins and led Nottingham Forest to the title with Peter Shilton in goal.

In a tight AL East race, the Red Sox and Yankees both won and New York remains three games behind the former for the division.

The Indians lost against the Mariners but the Astros won so the race for best record in the American League remains tight, with Houston only 1.5 games back.

Sadly that means we won't get to see Maldonado drinking the milk after winning the Indy 500 (because obviously he would), but the prospect of Pastor on some of the tight, bumpy and unforgiving street tracks IndyCar races is something to be excited about.

The NFC wild card race is tight and there are already three teams with at least eight wins that aren't holding a division lead.

The Lions stay atop the NFC North, but it's a tighter race after Green Bay won.

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).

Maya Gilardi: The Davis senior outside hitter posted 24 kills in a 3 - 2 win over Delta League rival St. Francis vaulted Davis into a tight race for the league volleyball title.

Based on the current odds at 5Dimes we can assert that oddsmakers believe that Philadelphia and Indianapolis will win their division, although the NFC East is clearly the tightest race.

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.

The forward scored the game - winning goal in a 2 - 1 victory over host Cosumnes Oaks to claim the outright lead in a tight Sierra Valley Conference 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.

Both groups spent heavily in last year's tight Senate race that was ultimately won by Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk.

Addabbo easily won his re-election bid in 2010, but he's now in a tight race — one that could make a big difference in the battle for control of the Senate.

Democrat Nick Krupski won the first seat on the Board of Trustees by nearly 800 votes and, in the tightest race of the night, incumbent Republican Dave Bergen leads for the second seat by just five votes over running mate Glenn Goldsmith in another race too close to call.

Andy Beshear, the governor's son, is fighting for a win in the state's tight race for attorney general against Republican state Sen. Whitney Westerfield.

If the race is tight in May, then maybe the Conservatives will win because of their superior usability.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are in a tight race to win next month's California primary, according to a new poll that shows them in a virtual tie.

Johnson won a full two - year term in the 2008 elections, but lost his seat in a very tight race 2010 to Republican Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, who is now in a hotly contested race with Democratic businessman Adam Haber.

«However, it's obviously a very tight race and, in the end, it will be votes and not nominations that win this election.»

Still, there were some signs that Democrats might manage to pick up a seat in Buffalo, where Marc C. Panepinto, a personal injury lawyer, was leading in a tight race with the incumbent, Senator Mark J. Grisanti, who is running on the Independence Party line, and Kevin T. Stocker, a lawyer who won the Republican primary in September.

Alcantara, a longtime labor and community organizer, won a tight 31st Senate District primary race against two experienced political operators: former Councilman Robert Jackson and Micah Lasher, chief of staff for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

AD46 Assembly District 46 is represented by Assemblymember Pamela Harris, who won a special election last year and is in a tight race with challenger Kate Cucco to represent residents of southern Brooklyn including Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, and Coney Island.

On most projections Mr Cameron is expected to win more seats than Mr Miliband, although the race is tight.

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.

Final numbers are still rolling in, but in a tight three - way race for no. 1 at the U.S. box office, a certain monster hit appears to have won by a (bright red) nose.

Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a category that might provide an upset and if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.

Saoirse Ronan Winning Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: What initially felt like it would be a tight race between McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) has become, essentially, a coin toss between McDormand and Lady Bird's Ronan.

Kate Winslet won for Best Supporting Actress last night at Critics» Choice making it a very tight race between her and Penelope Cruz for Oscar.

When young father Manny (Anthony Ramos) witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man, the tight - knit community of Bed - Stuy is pushed to the brink in Reinaldo Marcus Green's Sundance Award - winning portrait of race, family and consequence.

If a man is going to win the Palme, potential contenders in a tight race could include Jim Jarmusch for the quiet, understated character study «Paterson,» Park Chan - wook for the wildly stylish and erotic «The Handmaiden» or past Palme winner Christian Mungiu for «Graduation,» one of the final films to screen.

But in a tight race, critics» endorsements could be enough to buttress the role's Oscar - friendly cultural minstrelsy and erection - friendly lesbianics to an easy win.

(FWIW my favorite Best Actress win of the 40s is a tight race between Crawford's Mildred Pierce and DeHavilland's The Heiress)

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• Gavin then completed a double - stint and then alternating single stints on to the chequered flag • Final stop key to finishing in fourth position based on fuel strategy and the position felt «like a win» for Gavin • Gavin looking forward to this weekend's race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park but expects a tight battle

After 10 straight months with the Nissan Leaf winning the Best Selling Crown and after a tight race (Just 50 units separating both) with Nissan's hatchback, the Outlander PHEV achieved its first monthly # 1, the first for Mitsubishi since... 2010.

Sometimes you'll go from winning multiple tight races in a row only to find the next one has the two lead cars are so far in front of you, you'll think you're in first until you notice the 3/24 indicator in the corner.