Sentence examples for narrowly managed from inspiring English sources

And 70 years later it has narrowly managed to evade having zero workers.

Wolfsburg looked all set for a date with Joe Black but narrowly managed to miss the appointment.

By ignoring the short-term threat, American officials say, Mrs. Merkel is unwittingly courting the very threat they so narrowly managed to keep at bay.

Last September Jimmy Meng, the owner of a lumber company in Flushing, narrowly managed to beat the incumbent, Barry Grodenchik, in a Democratic primary, and in November became the first Asian-American in New York's state assembly.

As vice president of the Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square massacre took place, Kamm narrowly managed to get a resolution through the chamber condemning the massacre, over the opposition of its bigger members.

Last month, amid violent protests, Prime Minister George A. Papandreou narrowly managed to push a new package of austerity measures through Parliament, including plans for selling $71 billion in state assets, a step that economists and the troika say is crucial to overhauling Greece's bloated public sector.

The Conservative-run council narrowly managed to push through its budget proposals only with support from four Liberal Democrat councillors.

After the talks failed, Basil led a campaign against the Paulician state in the spring of 871, but was defeated and only narrowly managed to escape himself.