Sentence examples for a narrow vote from inspiring English sources

By a narrow vote of 21 17, the Judiciary Committee found, in that very refusal, a basis for impeachment.

As one minister who is about to come out as an Outer told me: "I think there will be a narrow vote to stay in.

Its referendum produced a narrow vote in favour of the Maastricht treaty.Look at it this wayDifferent countries learnt different lessons from the crisis.

The I.O.C., which has a history of financial receptivity and political amoralism, awarded the 2014 Games to Russia over South Korea by a narrow vote.

The police support the injunction as a bulwark against the city's soaring homicide rate, and the City Council recently approved financing for it in a narrow vote.

The court as a whole was impeached, on a narrow vote, for not putting policies in place to rein in the spending of one another.

In a narrower vote than some expected, 15 Republicans broke rank to join the 190 Democrats who voted against the repeal.

In a narrower vote than some expected, 15 Republicans broke rank to join the 190 Democrats who voted against the repeal.

Relative to other months in which a new series of austerity measures were passed by the Greek government, June 2011 may have been most significant because it was the first part of a larger austerity plan that passed by a very narrow vote.

The White House won a victory in that direction when Congress, by a very narrow vote, gave the president so-called "trade promotion authority," which will enable the president to make trade barrier-reducing agreements with other nations.

No longer the winner in a fairly narrow vote of 52%to48%8%, leave was recast in the PM's conference speech as a mass consensus, the unambiguous stance of the great British public.