Sentence examples for narrow chance from inspiring English sources

Yet this year it bagged 282 of the 350-odd seats in which it stood even a narrow chance of victory.

Congress has a narrow chance in Delhi, and in tiny Mizoram in the north-east.The BJP expects these polls to give its candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi (above, right), momentum in the election year.

A Bush administration proposal that sought to deliver a portion of American food aid more quickly and at lower cost to starving people around the world appears headed for defeat in Congress, though there is still a narrow chance a scaled-down version will survive in the Senate.

In order to give a narrow chance of being a keyframe to the low-quality images, we measure the contrast as variance of pixels.

If the jury decides in favor of Tourre, it will be because the S.E.C. lawyers gave the government so few and such narrow chances to prevail.

The commitment from Brown, detailed in a statement from his top aide, Nancy McFadden, came after a flurry of activity in the Capitol on Thursday that revealed the narrow chances of passing climate measures before the end of the legislative session on Aug. 31.

If arteries in the legs are narrowed, chances are the arteries feeding the heart and brain are narrowed as well.

Non-party members can vote but have to apply for a form and knowing how apathetic folk can be I believe this would, for me, narrow any chance of winning, as the Tory faithful are much more likely to vote for an established politician.

While narrow, the chance of finding gainful employment in the private sector was an important way out for Muslim women trapped in the whirlpool of France's large suburban ghettos.

But Genetic ID executives said it triple-tests each sample to narrow the chances of a false result.

Compounding matters, new accounting rules force banks to peg the value of their stocks to current prices, not their original purchase price, narrowing the chance for profits.