Sentence examples similar to narrowly won round from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yushchenko narrowly won that round among a field of 24, leading to the two-candidate runoff on Sunday.

David Davis, the pre-contest favourite, narrowly won the first round of MPs' votes.

Seton Hall narrowly won the first round of the annual Big East battle of New Jersey and its fifth straight over all with an 84-71 ovictory victoveroveRutgersRutgers

The first team narrowly won to go into the second round.

The second round of the presidential election, held on May 22, was narrowly won by Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.

In Kuala Selangor, a semi-rural constituency narrowly won by PAS at the last election, I watched MP Dzulkefly Ahmad doing the rounds of food stalls and grocery shops, accompanied by his headscarfed wife.

The Nets won games 3 and 4 to lead 3 1, but Toronto forced Game 6 when they narrowly won 98 96 in Game 5. New Jersey won Game 6, however, and sent Toronto out of the first round.

Dilma Rousseff has narrowly won re-election to the presidency of Brazil, capturing 51.6% to her rival's 48.4% in a second round run-off election.

This time Carvalho came out in front, narrowly winning the first round with 50.1 percent of the vote and therefore avoiding the need for a runoff election.

But Mr. Van der Bellen's victory was at least partly explained by a concerted effort to woo rural voters after narrowly winning the first round of voting in May on the strength of urban votes.

Hastert narrowly won the election.