Sentence examples for narrowly captured from inspiring English sources
Mr. Obama narrowly captured the suburbs in 2008, 50 percent to Senator John McCain's 48 percent.
PAN activists say heads must roll.They will get their chance in August, at the party's national assembly in Queretaro, a former PRI stronghold that it narrowly captured.
It is one of 13 hustings the candidates are doing in the constituency, which Lord Ashcroft, a Tory bigwig turned pollster, has suggested could be narrowly captured by Labour.
American authorities said recently that they had narrowly missed capturing Mr. Mohammed at the time.
In a sensational byelection that summer, Jenkins narrowly missed capturing Warrington, one of Labour's safest seats, for the new party.
Although counting continued in the three-way contest, the incumbent Republican, Saxby Chambliss, seems to have narrowly missed capturing a majority of the vote against Democratic and Libertarian challengers.
Earlier this month, Iraqis living in the Adhamiya neighborhood in northern Baghdad said Mr. Hussein had visited there on April 9. Some American military officers said they might have narrowly missed capturing Mr. Hussein at a shootout involving marines in a mosque there.
Using information from Mr. Rifki, authorities in Indonesia this month narrowly missed capturing Azhari Husin, a 46-year-old Malaysian An American official described Mr. Azhari as more dangerous than Mr. Isamuddin because he has the same religious zeal but better bomb-making skills.
The president spoke to the nation via the FaceTime app on his iPhone after he narrowly escaped being captured by mutinous soldiers, who arrived in a helicopter at a seaside hotel where he was vacationing — just after he had departed.
Bellerophon narrowly escaped being captured by the French in 1795, when her squadron was nearly overrun by a powerful French fleet, but the bold actions of the squadron's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, caused the French to retreat.
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.
