Sentence examples for narrow contests from inspiring English sources
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III today implored Vice President Al Gore to follow the lead of two former Republican presidential candidates who swiftly conceded defeat after narrow contests marred by charges of fraud.
Victory Gallop outscored Behrens in a narrow contest, just as he edged Behrens in the Whitney at Saratoga in August in a landmark race.
The narrow contest has brought the state numerous last-minute visits by both major candidates and their high-profile supporters: former New York mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Edward I. Koch for Mr. Bush; the rock star Jon Bon Jovi for Mr. Kerry.
As Munger sees it, it's within McCrory's rights to call for the legitimacy of every ballot to be determined in such a narrow contest.
The future of the Senate is being decided largely beyond the focus of the more narrow presidential contest, in states like North Dakota, Montana, Indiana and Arizona where neither presidential candidate has campaigned.
The request for proposals that the city has published mentions options like narrowing the contest to a set of finalists, or negotiating with bidders to make changes in their submissions.
Participation was over 64%, far higher than in the first round of the elections two weeks earlier, which had narrowed the contest to a run-off between Mr Ponta and Mr Iohannis.
This narrowed the contest down to two finalists, one of which was Dukes.
The Yankees charged the outnumbered rebels, but the rebels "gallantly met the onset, falling back slowly to a narrow lane, stubbornly contesting the ground," reported an unidentified Confederate in a pamphlet published during the war.
But his relatively narrow margins in some contests — including last week against Mike Huckabee in Virginia — have rattled party leaders by accentuating his tenuous standing among conservatives.
Predictably good outcomes for Sanders in the remaining states and territories will not be sufficient to gain enough pledged delegates to win, although these contests will narrow Clinton's current lead of about 300 delegates.
