Sentence examples for by a firm margin from inspiring English sources
He has won the popular vote handily and the electoral vote by a firm margin.
Investors are therefore expecting the company to best its guidance by a firm margin.
Voters legalized divorce by a razor-thin margin in 1995 and now, by a firm majority, have dismissed the Catholic Church's repeated calls to reject gay marriage.
But voters stood firm and re-elected by a considerable margin Susumu Inamine, the incumbent mayor who since being elected in 2010 has fought the planned relocation.For the government of Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, Mr Inamine could now become a persistent irritant.
Sybase trails Oracle, I.B.M. and Microsoft by a significant margin in the database market, according the research firm Gartner.
That's more, you'll note, than the firm's first-half-year net income by a wide margin.
It finds that most of the diversified firms outperformed stockmarket averages in the past five years, many by a significant margin.
I.B.M. led the parade of companies issued United States patents last year by a wide margin, according to an analysis released yesterday by IFI Claims Patent Services, a patent research firm.
The bipartisan Battleground Poll conducted August 5-9 by the Tarrance Group, a Republican firm, and Lake Research Partners, a Democratic firm, found that voters trusted Obama over Romney to handle Medicare and Social Security by a 49-45 margin.
The market research firm Nielsen/NetRatings says Google has a UK market share of more than 60%, with Yahoo and MSN trailing by a substantial margin.
