Sentence examples for a comfortable buffer from inspiring English sources

When André Villas-Boas's team beat their neighbours to stride seven points clear of them it felt as though they had a comfortable buffer for Champions League qualification.

Bradford fought back well though, with tries from Danny Williams and Matty Blythe narrowing the gap to two, before Danny Washbrook had appeared to give Wakefield a comfortable buffer with 20 minutes to go.

But instead of building up a comfortable buffer, Labour has seen its lead narrow to the low single-figures, and the latest Ipsos MORI poll has them level with the Tories.Of course, it is still early in the Parliament.

Lorenzo, who began fifth on the grid, passed Casey Stoner, the series leader, on an inside corner with six laps remaining and quickly established a comfortable buffer that he retained to the finish.

The words of a white author are a comfortable buffer, a reassurance that nothing in the story will be too shocking, too hard to understand; the author is like you, and you can trust him or her to tell you this story in familiar terms.

Aware that they cannot ignore this new outlet for public opinion, officials have moved to engage with it: government agencies, party organs and individual officials have set up more than 50,000 weibo accounts, according to the Chinese Academy of Governance.This degree of online engagement can be awkward for authorities used to a comfortable buffer from public opinion.

But Mr Murphy does have a rather comfortable buffer in East Renfrewshire, a majority in 2010 of 10,420 with the Conservatives in second place and the SNP trailing well behind the Liberal Democrats.

The goal of many in the Spartathlon is to build up a comfortable time buffer in the first part of the race, which they can gradually run down when the going gets tough in the later stages.

Vettel's second-place finish at Silverstone gave him 204 points over all and expanded his already comfortable buffer over Mark Webber, his Red Bull teammate, at 124 points.

Defence had proved supreme up to that point but after Jamie Ellis exploited a mistake from Hall, who let a Brough kick bounce, Brough's conversion and a further penalty gave Huddersfield what seemed a comfortable eight-point buffer.

• Adopt "a comfortable tone".