Sentence examples for almost won the election from inspiring English sources

"We almost won the election," she said, and attributed Kerry's loss to superior Republican organizing and to Republican tactics, most notably the attacks last summer on Kerry's war record.

They (almost) won the 2010 election with 36% of the vote.

In 1996 communists almost won the presidential elections; by twisting the rules, he saved himself and his country.Civil war and hunger were averted, but Mr Yeltsin's compromises allowed authoritarianism to revive.

Although President Richard Nixon, following his successful trips to Russia and China, would almost certainly have won the election anyway, the Eagleton affair drove McGovern's poll rating to under 25%, and it never recovered.

The issue surfaced almost immediately after Turnbull won the election with a wafer-thin margin, in part as a campaign to stir up internal trouble and in part because a number of Coalition parliamentarians have strong views on the issue.

Almost as soon as Roosevelt won the election, he turned his attention to passing the first significant campaign-finance-reform act in American history — trying to outlaw the very techniques he had just used to stay in office.

He won the election with almost 80 percent of the vote.

Mr. Lukashenko won the election with almost 80 percent of the vote, though independent observers said the ballot counting was rigged.

Of almost half the country saying, 'We won the election; you stole it from us.' You don't want to do that.

Nixon won the election by almost twenty percentage points.

To the surprise of almost everyone except Heath, the Conservatives won the election, with a majority of 31 seats.