Sentence examples for slim election from inspiring English sources

Sensing the damage he had inflicted on his already slim election chances, Brown wrote to party members to apologise.

His planned retirement added another element of uncertainty to a nation whose politics have been on hold since Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede defeat after provisional results showed a slim election loss to Romano Prodi.

Since leading his coalition to a slim victory in elections in 2013, with less than half the popular vote, his approval rating has dropped about ten points to less than 50%, according to the Merdeka Centre, a pollster.

The odds of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination let alone the 2016 presidential election are slim to none and slim just left town taking the government subsidized railway transit with a connecting boat to Cuba.

The chances of the alliance holding until the election are slim.

But several members of Congress have already signaled that the chances of passage are slim in the coming election year.

With disdain and wit, Miller recognized that as long as his natural enemies — current and former baseball executives — were judging him, the odds of his election were slim.

Mr. Allan said his group's members took the view that the chances of negotiating a better deal with Washington were slim, especially in an election year.

At the time of writing, Trump's polling negatives are unprecedented, his campaign is broke, and his chances of beating Hillary Clinton in a general election seem slim.

Yet for now, any kind of discussion like this would seem to be academic, since the chances of holding a special election are slim.

But while no senior MP has come forward to openly criticise Mr Miliband, a number have been privately highly critical – even if they think the chances of removing him before the election are slim to non-existent.