Sentence examples for narrowly secured from inspiring English sources

Even so, the proposal narrowly secured the necessary 75% of votes present.

Veiga and Pires faced each other once again in the presidential election of 2006, in which Pires with diasporic support very narrowly secured reelection.

New Democracy narrowly secured victory in the June polls, and Mr Samaras said the result represented a vote for the country "to remain on its European path and in the eurozone".

News of his candidacy comes months after King narrowly secured a ninth consecutive term in Congress.

Moreover, the TPP will enjoy a reduced threshold for congressional approval under the "fast-track" authority that President Obama narrowly secured last year.

The government this month narrowly secured parliamentary approval for yet another round of spending cuts and tax increases, putting Greece on the verge of receiving 31 billion euros, or $39 billion, in desperately needed bailout loans.

Despite narrowly securing congressional approval to negotiate the Trans-Pacific ParTPPrship (TPP) agreement with 11 other countries, Barack Obama still has to persuade a majority of US lawmakers to pass the final deal, which aims to remove thousands of import tariffs.

The SA Greens won 4.3 percent of the upper house vote meaning a swing of 1.5 percent, narrowly securing Mark Parnell for the last upper house seat on preferences.

A supermajority of the Freedom Caucus said they would support Ryan, which falls short of the 80percentt required for a formal endorsement, but is still enough votes for Ryan to narrowly secure the position.

She had helped found the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society in 1878, and in 1881 83 she led a campaign that narrowly failed to secure woman suffrage in Indiana.

In spite of persistent campaigning and intense lobbying, in September Egypt's candidate for the post of UNESCO director general, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, narrowly failed to secure the required 30-member majority vote of the 58-member Executive Board.