Sentence examples for a narrow margin in from inspiring English sources

Though he was re-elected in 1964, he lost by a narrow margin in 1966.

He was elected by only a narrow margin in 1998 when he defeated a Republican incumbent, Lauch Faircloth.

He in turn lost by a narrow margin in 1993 to Clerides, a rightist, who was reelected in 1998.

He voted for a cap-and-trade bill that passed the House by a narrow margin in 2009.

It had always been a BN stronghold but was lost by a narrow margin in the electoral meltdown of 2008.

The Swedes, who voted by a narrow margin in 1994 to join the EU, are among its most grudging members.

John Kennedy's election was by a narrower margin in the popular vote than the 300,000 margin that currently exists here.

He added: "John Kennedy's election was by a narrower margin in the popular vote than the 300,000 margin that currently exists here.

Some notable failures occurred in the United States in 1948 (when nearly all polls forecast a Republican victory and the Democrats won by a narrow margin) and in Great Britain in 1970 (when all but one of the major polls incorrectly predicted a Labour Party victory) and again in 1992 (when all polls incorrectly predicted a hung parliament).

Calderón's strong antibombing stance together with the killing of a security officer by an errant bomb in 1999 and the island's alarmingly high cancer rate (which many attributed to the exercises)—helped her to win by a narrow margin, and in 2001 she was sworn in as the commonwealth's first woman governor.

Minnesota has a long history of voting for Democratic presidential nominees, but Al Gore beat Mr. Bush by just a narrow margin here in 2000.