Sentence examples for narrowly contested from inspiring English sources
Even a small group of undecided voters could significantly change a close, narrowly contested race by breaking sharply enough near Election Day.
The narrowly contested secret ballot vote pitted Mr. Ping, who has served as chairman of the African Union Commission since 2008, against Ms. Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa, the country with sub-Saharan Africa's biggest economy and a diplomatic heavyweight.
Far more likely, say election experts of all stripes, is a narrowly contested campaign revolving around the mobilization of party loyalists and an attempt to win over a small slice of voters who will remain undecided until almost the end.
In September, it seemed that he was about to soar away from Mr Bush on an updraft of credit for economic performance.On the night, some Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for the fall, arguing that he could have been the deciding factor in narrowly contested states, such as Florida and Oregon.
And as Democrats collapsed across rural America, this formerly narrowly contested seat turned sharply toward Republicans.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Jennings narrowly won a closely contested Democratic primary race against a candidate endorsed by the Queens Democratic Party organization, which has long opposed Mr. Jennings's various candidacies.
Dominic Sandbrook is a historian whose books include Never Had It So Good and Mad as Hell The 1964 general election was hotly contested and narrowly decided – power went to Labour by an exceedingly slender majority.
With Colorado as narrowly divided and fiercely contested as any battleground state in the country, its fate this November may well depend on whether Mr. Romney's campaign can build a ground-level presence like the one that helped carry Mr. Obama four years ago.
The House today narrowly approved the biggest and most hotly contested spending bill of the year, a $339.4 billion measure for education, health and labor programs.
In television's most hotly contested race, NBC's 'Today Show' narrowly beat out ABC's "Good Morning America" in the coveted 26- to-54 demographic, writes Brian Stelter.
Former Vice President Al Gore, who narrowly lost the 2000 presidential election due to contested ballots in Florida, reminded a crowd there on Tuesday of the importance of voting.
