Sentences with phrase «won by a narrow margin»

The UKIP leader, and one of the most prominent Leave campaigners, appears to have conceded defeat, telling Sky News» Darren McCaffrey that he expects Remain to win by a narrow margin.

Going into the UK's referendum to leave the European Union last month, the prevailing view was that the Stay camp would win by a narrow margin.

It was put to a vote, and «divine» won by a narrow margin!

The Snapper won by a narrow margin over the Caprese Salad.

The marriage vote also was the impetus for DiCarlo to mount a GOP primary challenge to Saland, a race the senator won by a narrow margin.

Nigel Farage warns today he would fight for a second referendum on Britain in Europe if the remain campaign won by a narrow margin next month.

We felt a profound sense of dismay when Tories won by narrow margins.

Caruso won by a narrow margin and his Glendale project, Americana at Brand, is under construction.

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

American Nathan Adrian won the men's 100m freestyle in the narrowest of margins, edging the favorite by just 0.01 seconds.

What it provided was a situation in which Pittsburgh could win the formula - off by intentionally playing for a loss and kicking a field goal to narrow Cincinnati's margin of victory instead of going for a touchdown that would win the game.

Even if Chelsea win this game today, which I doubt, it will be by a narrow margin.

It may well have felt like Deja Vu to the Arsenal and Germany international star Mesut Ozil at Euro 2016 yesterday, because despite the attacking midfielder producing an awesome and bewildering display of passing and creative football that had Northern Ireland chasing shadows in France, his national side Germany could only manage to win by the narrowest of margins.

Yarnold continued to push for the Sochi win though and took it by the narrowest of margins, denying home favourite Maria Orlova by 0.04 seconds while Germany's Anja Huber Selbach took bronze in her last World Cup race.

They are a price of 6/1 at bet365 to win by a one goal margin in this with Chelsea at 11/4 to take the narrow win.

Madrid's last four wins over Valencia have only been by that narrow margin.

This should be a decent competitive game and because a lot of City's wins recently have only been narrow ones, it may be worth backing the Citizens to edge it by just the one goal margin.

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

Trump carried the 22nd District by double digits, but Tenney won her first term by a narrower 6 - point margin in a race with a third party candidate.

In 1997, the vote to establish the National Assembly was won by such a narrow margin.

According to a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations, Agata was elected by an 8 - 4 vote, the narrowest margin possible to win a majority of the 14 - member panel.

Arizona 2: Romney won here by an even narrower margin, 49.9 - 48.4 percent, but GOP Rep. Martha McSally had a $ 2.2 million to $ 389,000 cash advantage on March 31 over former Democratic state Rep. Matt Heinz.

If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.

The democrats lost the election by a narrow margin in the electoral while winning big in the popular vote.

«My first campaign was when I went to unseat an incumbent and to win that by a narrow margin is one thing,» Mr. Bishop said of his two - point win over Felix Grucci in 2002.

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

As Ann Black, the chairwoman of Labour's National Executive Committee, announced the results of the fourth round of the contest and it became clear that Ed Miliband had won by the narrowest of margins (50.65 per cent compared to his brother David's 49.35 per cent), a collective sigh of relief rippled through the ranks of the Coalition.

[8] Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III was favored to win this election, having lost the previous election by a narrow margin.

This first became evident from the 2014 council elections when Lab won more seats than the Cons in Chipping Barnet, and the Cons only held the council by the narrowest of margins thanks to stronger performances elsewhere.

He won two subsequent elections, both by narrow margins.

Packing and cracking result in some telltale signs of interference: the opposition party tends to win by a landslide in packed districts, but lose by a narrow margin in cracked ones.

The participants rated their own competence levels to be much higher when they won by a wide margin than when they did so with only the narrowest of margins.

As with Best Picture, it looks as though Argo will win over Lincoln, though perhaps by a narrower margin.

Google's phones barely escaped the first round, pulling out a narrow win over the Asus ZenFone 2 by a 52 to 48 percent margin.