Sentence examples for narrowly saw from inspiring English sources

Having retained only four players from the team which narrowly saw off the Mighty Oaks 34-24, Robinson can only hope his men respond accordingly.

Alexander Van der Bellen, the man who narrowly saw off a far-right challenge to become – albeit largely by default – the first Green head of state in western Europe, is a tall, austere 72-year-old retired economics professor who has often called himself "a child of refugees".

The Giants narrowly saw off Championship side Batley on Sunday while the Rhinos comfortably overcame managerless Castleford on Friday night.

Labour narrowly saw off UKIP in the recent Heywood and Middleton by-election, and Mr Farage has vowed to take on Labour's "northern heartlands" in the general election.

Andy Halsall is standing for the party in Sheffield Central where Labour's Paul Blomfield narrowly saw of the challenge of Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Scriven in 2010 by just 165 votes.

Mr Abbott's personal rating has never caught up with the popular appeal of some of his policies, and a series of ill-judged announcements in late 2014 and early 2015, coupled with the Liberals' loss of Queensland in state elections, led to a Liberal Party leadership challenge that he narrowly saw off.

Sir Martin Sorrell has narrowly seen off a shareholder revolt over executive pay after more than 40% of investors rejected the £7.9m payout awarded to WPP directors last year.

But the food and flavors were familiar to her, and Khan saw an opportunity to explore another place that, like Iran, "is often narrowly seen through a political prism".

Rupert Murdoch has narrowly seen off a significant revolt by New Corp shareholders against the voting structure that ensures his family retains an iron grip on the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, the Sun and the Australian.

Theresa May has narrowly seen off a Commons rebellion from Conservative remainers unhappy that she had caved in to hardline Brexiters by accepting their amendments to the customs bill.

The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture.