Sentence examples for narrowly alive from inspiring English sources

The Knicks return to Miami, improbably, with their playoff hopes narrowly alive and Stoudemire thriving again, after a 20-point, 10-rebound performance that helped them stave off elimination in Game 4. The Heat lead the series, 3-1, and have another chance to close it out Wednesday night.

When the court ruled on the head-scarf case, four months later, the A.K.P. was narrowly kept alive by just one vote.

Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, kept his conservative government alive by narrowly winning votes of confidence in both houses of parliament.

Later, she narrowly escaped being eaten alive by a cougar (series two) and choked to death by nerve gas (series five).

I notice that I don't have a welling in my chest of anxiety, and to me that's worth everything .Now that "We Are Not Ourselves" has been published to strong reviews in America and Britain, the 39-year-old Mr Thomas exudes the dazed gratitude of a man who has narrowly avoided being buried alive.

There followed early marriage to his fellow-student Mary Frances, war service in Africa and Italy (where he narrowly escaped being burned alive) and nearly a decade spent setting out his theories about literature, community and moral behaviour while holding down a day job in the University of Hull's extra-mural department.

Tiridates I and his brother Pacorus, King of Media Atropatene, faced them at a number of battles, during one of which Tiridates I was briefly captured, narrowly escaping being taken alive.

"Michael's points are right-on...I believe, with great regret, that the pragmatic circumstances of keeping bin Laden alive outweighed, very narrowly, what Michael is addressing.

Antonio de Herrera Tordesillas's account tells of a young Andean boy who sought refuge among the Spaniards in the Xauxa Valley (in the Peruvian Sierra), after he narrowly escaped from being ritually buried alive in occasion of the death of a local chief ([ 30]: 67).

He now marks every October 17th as his "Alive Day," the day he narrowly escaped death and an anniversary he'll never forget.

One week after he narrowly avoided elimination, Beem kept his improbable run alive yesterday at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass.