Sentence examples for had been edged from inspiring English sources

(The winner was Master Georgie, Bainbridge's Crimean odyssey, which had been edged out in 1998 by Ian McEwan's Amsterdam).

A year ago Carlo Ancelotti's team had been edged out on away goals at this stage by Barcelona, their displays drawing praise but not progress.

So, he was asked, if Mr. Weinke had been edged out by Mr. Heupel or some other candidate, would he be satisfied with that outcome, too? "No," he said immediately.

In her Web column today, Katharine Q. Seelye writes that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted her first bloggers-only conference call on Friday — coincidentally, the first week in which Mrs. Clinton had been edged out of the media's campaign narrative.

The Italian veteran, believing he had been edged off the track, confronted the young German with a series of gestures suggesting that they might be meeting again to sort it out away from the public gaze.

Blessed by the luck of the draw with a semi-final, if not at home, then still to their advantage down by the Med, Clermont said that they had absorbed the lessons of last year when, in similar semi circumstances – in Bordeaux – they had been edged out by the Irish.

Outside, the children had been edging closer to the soldiers.

Unemployment, which had been edging downwards, is back on the rise, officially touching 20%.

Central-bank reserves, which had been edging up by only $500m a month, have recently shown a much sharper rise.

If he had been edging toward a sustained public challenge to Tsipras, this was a change of course.

Crude and natural gas prices had been edging up over the last several days, but prices plummeted on Thursday.