Sentence examples for narrow split from inspiring English sources

But the second bout in their trilogy came six months later, when Ali rallied to win a narrow split decision.

Bush partisans mistakenly made much of the narrow split in the Florida court, as if a 4-to-3 decision was somehow less than decisive.

'I never said that to you,' Roberts added, despite the fact that another reporter was present and The Star had not agreed to an off record conversation". Roberts later issued a longer statement blaming Kobach's difficult path to confirmation on the Senate's narrow split between Republicans and Democrats.

Overcoming a cut from an accidental head butt in the third round and several brutal rounds with Joshua Clottey, Cotto fought to a narrow split decision Saturday night in a packed Madison Square Garden, retaining his World Boxing Organization welterweight title.

Since 218 votes is the minimum needed to guarantee a majority in a body of 435 members, this narrow split made for harrowing negotiations.

"At the end of the day the narrow splitting of us versus them - the class differentiation, the gender, the race thing - that's nonsense," he says.

at the post-fight news conference in a wheelchair, but now-retired Nevada judges Duane Ford and C.J. Ross awarded Bradley a narrow split-decision win.

Less well documented is the narrower split between populist Democrats and their colleagues.

A separate poll conducted by YouGov for the Welsh NHS in November last year found a narrower split between the 57% of people who were totally opposed to concentrating services in fewer, larger hospitals and the 29% who strongly supported the idea.

Good ATMOSPHERE -- Spare décor in a narrow storefront split lengthwise into adjoining bar and dining areas.

Re "Bush and Gore Vie for an Edge With Narrow Electoral Split; Hillary Clinton Goes to Senate" (front page, Nov. 8): What a cliffhanger!