Sentence examples for a modest margin of from inspiring English sources

In stark contrast, Obama -- ­who inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression and faced implacable opposition from a rejectionist Republican Party­ -- was re-elected by a modest margin of 3.6percentt (50.9 to 47.3percentt), compared to 7.2percentt in 2008 (52.9 to 45.7percentt).

In the late 1990s, when Cincinnati Bell got into the lucrative long-distance market, Cassidy set the price of a call at 10 cents a minute, roughly half the going rate but still enough to preserve a modest margin for Cincinnati Bell.

Ninety million dollars and a near-constant loop of negative commercials about his opponent later, the mayor ended election night in possession of a surprisingly modest margin of victory — far narrower than pollsters had predicted and with 100,000 fewer votes than he won in 2005.

A cohort study in Sweden had also found that increased coffee intake was associated with lower risk of ER- PR- breast cancer, but at a more modest margin of protection, not achieving statistical significance [ 30].

That was a modest margin over the nearly 37percentt of the votes that the European Union controls.

Clinton won the Colorado popular vote by a modest margin, but Trump took nearly twice as many counties.

Mr. Gore, however, carried the town by a modest margin, and four years ago Westfield went for Bill Clinton, the first time in memory that the Democratic presidential candidate captured the majority of votes here.

"Obama will win electoral and popular vote with a modest margin," Candace said.

Addition of GGT to the SSIGN score and the UISS revealed statistical significance and increased its discrimination by a modest margin.

The Conservatives lead the Labour Party by a stable but modest margin of around seven percentage points in the opinion polls.

If there were clouds on his horizon, such as the surprisingly modest margin of victory, they were the size of a man's hand.Now they threaten to overwhelm him.