Sentence examples for it narrowly failed from inspiring English sources
The announcement by Tony Baldry, the second church estates commissioner, the official link between the church and parliament, was made as MPs called for more drastic measures to force the Church of England to change its mind after it narrowly failed to back the move in a vote earlier this week.
In 2009 it narrowly failed to assassinate Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's interior minister.
It narrowly failed to achieve the feat last month, with the index falling 2.3pc.
On December 7th it narrowly failed to clinch the "treble", beaten in the final of the Chinese FA Cup.
New Hampshire's Republican-controlled Legislature was the last to pass a right-to-work bill in 2011, but it narrowly failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto by the Democratic governor; an Indiana law would re-energize that effort.
It narrowly failed to win the 2000 games, and so now claims that it has a right to the 2008 games as a big Olympic medal-winner, a developing nation and, of course, the world's most populous country.The concern outside China focuses on the government's authoritarian cast.
On October 3rd the country's highest electoral court refused to register the Sustainability Network, a party being set up by Marina Silva, a popular environmental activist and former minister, on the ground that it had narrowly failed to submit the 492,000 supporting signatures that new parties must collect.
The Grade-II listed 1908 institute and adjoining 1925 memorial hall featured in the BBC television programme Restoration, which it only narrowly failed to win.
Many Democrats were prepared to support the amendment, but they switched to vote against it when it became clear it would narrowly fail.
A Republican-led effort to strip the women's healthcare organization of the $500m in federal funding it receives annually narrowly failed on Monday.
