Sentence examples for thin edge over from inspiring English sources
With a battle over redistricting looming during the 2001 legislative session, and with the Republicans' thin edge over Democrats in the Senate, many senators feared political retribution if the candidate they supported lost.
With a thin edge over Republicans — likely to be 32 seats to 30, pending the final outcome of a close Queens race — Democrats will have a tenuous grip on power and are said to be talking to several Republicans about supporting Malcolm A. Smith, a Queens Democrat.
The Democratic Party won the elections, with a razor-thin edge over the party of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, but it does not have enough seats to form a majority.
Exit surveys early today gave Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a former president and pro-market reformer, a razor-thin edge over Manfred Reyes Villa, a populist former mayor of the country's third-largest city, Cochabamba.
The mere act of filing lawsuits, threatening lawsuits, lobbying officials and mounting a full-scale public relations campaign got the Republicans results: enough local elections officials in Florida reinstated overseas military and absentee ballots that they had previously rejected to add more than 100 votes to Gov. George W. Bush's wafer-thin edge over Vice President Al Gore.
GMs global advance gave it a razor-thin edge over Toyota for the distinction of worlds biggest automaker in the second quarter.
A very thin edge for four by Patel makes it seven off the over, but it really isn't enough.
Is it the thin edge of a large privatisation wedge or a removal of over-prescriptive central government regulation?
Swinging the ball at a full length, he provided a perfect illustration of the threat England would miss as, in the second over the day, he induced a thin edge from Rohit Sharma which was taken by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.
"It is a very thin edge".
28th over: England 118-3 (Pietersen 56 Collingwood 8) Collingwood collects four with a thin edge through third man.
