Sentence examples for narrowly hold from inspiring English sources

He helped his party narrowly hold on to its Senate majority against the Republican headwinds of 2010.

Kiira Korpi of Finland won the women's event, overcoming a fall and one mistimed jump in her free skate to narrowly hold off the Americans Mirai Nagasu and Alissa Czisny.

Mr Mundell saw his share of the vote rise slightly, which proved enough to narrowly hold off the SNP's Emma Harper.

Republicans gained Democrat-held seats in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia, while Democrats managed to narrowly hold jeopardized seats in Colorado, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Minnesota, leaving Republicans with swing of seven seats and a 52-48 margin.

Mr Dung only narrowly held on to his job.

But the old governing party, universally known as the PRI, now narrowly holds sway in Congress.

He later added Arkansas and narrowly held off Ohio governor John Kasich in Vermont.

Trump narrowly held off Cruz in North Carolina and then chalked up Illinois by eight points from Cruz.

In the State Senate, the top cost-per-vote total goes to Wendy Davis, Democrat of Fort Worth, who narrowly held off Representative Mark Shelton, Republican of Fort Worth.

What of the fraudulent December 4th parliamentary vote in which Putin's United Russia Party narrowly held on to power, setting off a wave of protests?

(AP) THE AMERICAS CANADA: RARE VICTORY -- The Conservative Party won a rare victory, narrowly holding on to a parliamentary seat in a Newfoundland by-election.