Sentence examples for narrowly succeeded from inspiring English sources

Electronic eavesdropping also triggered controversy on Tuesday in New Zealand, where the government narrowly succeeded in passing legislation obliging telecoms firms to give the country's security agencies access to their networks.

CHICAGO — The fierce struggle among Republicans over whether to make Medicaid available to more low-income people played out in Michigan on Tuesday as the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, narrowly succeeded in swaying enough conservative senators in the State Legislature to accept the expansion, which was part of President Obama's health care law.

Collins succeeds, narrowly.

We have not spent much time examining what effect it might have had on the country if Cameron's ploy succeeded and Remain had won narrowly.

Its editor Sarah Sands, who succeeded Geordie Greig at the Standard, narrowly missed making this list herself, as did Chris Blackhurst, who took over from Simon Kelner at the Independent.

Brazen Beau, who last month at Royal Ascot narrowly failed where top Australian sprinters had previously succeeded, today attempts to become the first horse trained Down Under to win the Group One July Cup at Newmarket.

Upon his death in 1945 he was succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman, who was narrowly elected in 1948.

You succeeded in limiting joint political actions to a few narrowly defined circumstances and instances.

Cable television succeeded because it offered viewers, for a monthly fee, narrowly focused channels for a wide range of tastes.

This time he succeeded at capturing a hoatzin, the bird that he had narrowly missed during his earlier trip to Guiana, although he was unable to keep it alive for the zoo during the trip back to New York.

As such, in the current manuscript our intention is to acknowledge that experiments and quasi-experiments have an important place in educational research but also to argue that the results from such research are often narrowly focused and rarely succeed in providing answers to larger questions that are most relevant to the policy making process.