Sentence examples for closely won from inspiring English sources

I think the pretty strong message from the parliamentary Labour party was they wanted to make sure that we talk about what's happened in the election last week in a constituency like mine, where it was closely won, but there are some real issues for us to look at.

As Nate Silver keeps saying — and one can place the qualifications my colleague John Cassidy laid out on that phrase — Ohio has a fifty-per cent chance of being the deciding state this election, meaning that its electoral votes will be the most closely won and provide the margin of victory.

Boston Scientific marketed Medinol's Nir brand stents after the Israeli company, which is closely held, won approval to sell them in Europe in 1996 and the United States in 1998.

The match was closely fought Agdestein won the first game, Carlsen the second so the match went into a series of two-game rapid matches until there was a winner.

Lin Dan of China is through to the Olympic badminton men's singles semi-finals after a closely fought win over Sho Sasaki.

Using multiple regression analysis to determine how closely related winning percentage was to fan attendance, we controlled for the fluctuation of ticket prices and the boost in attendance as the result of having a new stadium, based on league-wide trends for teams that built new ball parks between 1991 and 2007.

But having been involved in three presidential races, two of which we won closely and one that we lost fairly closely, I know enough to know that we weren't brilliant because Florida went our way in 2000 or enough Ohioans stuck with us in 2004.

"People have followed him closely since he won the world championship here [in 1972].

"She has worked closely with, and won the trust of, the families of 9/11 victims with whom she worked".

These included Hugh Alexander, twice British national chess champion, with whom he was to work closely, Good had won the 1939 Cambridgeshire chess championship.

Again directed by Hall, the painstakingly made, feature-length musical version followed Grahame's original closely, and it won the 1984 Bafta for Best Children's Programme, and an International Emmy, triumphing over Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock.