Sentence examples for razor-thin defeat from inspiring English sources

In Tuesday's doubles match, Lee and Chung battled for 85 minutes to a razor-thin defeat, losing 4-6, 6-4, 13-11, to Kyle Edmund, 18, of Britain and Frederico Ferreira Silva, 18, of Portugal, the third seeded team.

With her People's National Party apparently suffering a razor-thin defeat, she refused to give up, saying the final count, expected to take two days, could shift some close races.

Moodie-Mills asked Gillum to think aloud about the real world of politics that he experienced during his razor-thin defeat in the Florida gubernatorial race and how he handled the challenges of running as Florida's first black candidate for governor from a major party.

The razor-thin defeat of a congressional measure to rein in domestic surveillance galvanized civil libertarians on Thursday for what they expect to be a drawn-out political and legal struggle to clip the wings of the intelligence apparatus in the US.

In the meantime, Mark Green, Bloomberg's Democratic opponent, spent $16.5 million in his razor-thin defeat.

On Sunday, Uribe's hard work paid off when Colombians voted "no" to peace and handed Santos a razor-thin defeat.

Before introducing Clinton, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, pointed to Virginia Sen. Mark R. Warner's razor-thin 2014 defeat of his Republican opponent, in which one exit poll found 68% of Asians voted for the Democrat.

The razor-thin margin of defeat was indicative of a growing desire among lawmakers to revisit it, and is said to have played a role in prompting the White House to take action.

The margin of Mr. Green's defeat was razor-thin, which tells me that if he had tempered his arrogance and demonstrated a modicum of leadership on the great issues of the day, he would have won.

Organizers deserve some credit for the razor-thin victory of Governor Roy Cooper; his defeat of McCrory was remarkable in a Republican year.

That was exacerbated this year by the razor-thin margins for Mr. Scott, who defeated Mr. Nelson by just 10,033 votes — or 0.12percentt — and Mr. DeSantis, who beat Mr. Gillum by some 34,000 votes.