Sentence examples for narrowly passing from inspiring English sources

Cable news channels are now the most prominent sources of campaign news for the American people, narrowly passing local television stations for the first time, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.

In Denmark, a referendum on adopting the euro single currency was unexpectedly lost in 1998, and Irish voters defeated the previous European Union voting system agreed to by leaders in Nice, France, in 2000, before narrowly passing it in a second try.

His comments got a chilly reception from Judith A. Jacobs, the Democratic legislative presiding officer, who led her caucus Thursday night in narrowly passing a $2.2 billion budget for 2001, as well as a spending plan for the following three years.

In the House of Representatives, debate over its version of the NCLB replacement was quite ideological, and culminated in the Republican majority narrowly passing a bill this summer with no Democratic support and 27 Republicans voting against it.

In February 1927, Congress took up the McNary-Haugen bill again, this time narrowly passing it and Coolidge vetoed it.

"The great irony may be that of all the millions Whitman wasted, the only impact we will see is that the millions she spent on GOTV for older whites will keep Prop 19 from narrowly passing," FDL's Jon Walker notes to HuffPost Hill.

The measure narrowly passed.

The House of Representatives narrowly passed the bill in March.

Her initial attempt to repeal the law narrowly passed the House but failed in the Senate.

An asteroid a third of a mile wide is set to narrowly pass by Earth next week.

A proposal to establish a Scottish assembly was narrowly passed in a referendum in 1979.