Sentence examples for narrowly survive from inspiring English sources

And those votes, by many accounts, appear to have helped Senator Thad Cochran, the incumbent, narrowly survive the runoff with McDaniel Tuesday night, with just over fifty per cent of the vote; he'd been behind McDaniel in the first round, in which neither got an outright majority.

The 1986 87 season saw Oxford United narrowly survive relegation and stay in the First Division.

Despite the shift, Landrieu managed to narrowly survive her first reelection race in 2002, and easily cruised to reelection in 2008, thanks to her popularity following Hurricane Katrina and increased voter turnout among black voters during Obama's first presidential campaign.

Assessment of maternal near miss morbidity, which is defined as mothers who narrowly survive death from life threatening complications of pregnancy or childbirth, is recommended as a measure of the quality of maternal health care [ 6- 12].

Their house in Sendai had narrowly survived the tsunami.

They narrowly survived two major fires at his homes.

By August 1978 he had narrowly survived a recall.

He narrowly survived two assassination attempts in December.

Ronald Reagan (1980) narrowly survived John Hinckley's bullet in 1981.

In December, General Musharraf narrowly survived two assassination attempts.

He narrowly survived his 2014 gamble over Scottish independence.