Sentence examples for failed by a wide margin from inspiring English sources

But the amendment failed by a wide margin, winning only 253 votes.

It failed, by a wide margin: sixty-two per cent to thirty-eight per cent.

The measure, known Proposition One or, as Berkman called it, the "bathroom ordinance," failed by a wide margin when put to a public vote this week.

Mr. McConnell voted for his budget plan, which also failed by a wide margin, because he said he had worked hard on it and "deserved my support".

A1 The United States has failed by a wide margin to meet its long-stated goal of reviving Iraq's electricity output for the start of the searing summer, further damaging efforts to foster stability and good will among Iraqis.

As a result, the controversial government reform plan failed by a wide margin.

The close call heartened some Democrats who might have lost their enthusiasm for the issue if the vote failed by a wider margin.

If the commission fails to recommend a country, it cannot be overruled.Greece will fail by a wide margin to satisfy the criteria.

If anything, BBC1's plight has only served to conceal ITV's dismal performance, not just across the day, but even within its own carefully defined version of peak-time, where it will fail by a wide margin even to meet the target it so recently revised sharply downward.

He has failed by a wide, wide margin.

His preference, a two-month extension of Section 215, then failed by a much wider margin, 45-54.