Sentence examples for tight candidates from inspiring English sources

While the race remains tight, candidates are desperately trying to expand their voter base.

With the polls so tight, candidates are reluctant to give their opponents any potential ammunition and, with the prospect of a hung parliament on the horizon, they're also reluctant to box themselves in with a commitment that could get in the way of a deal with another party.

Perhaps because of a growing number of independent voters and their central role in tight races, candidates this year tended to be moderate in style or substance, or both.

But the Bruins have other tight end candidates on the roster.

Bennett is another potential tight end candidate currently missing from the mix at that position.

This split in the crowded Republican field underlines the tight line the candidates face in trying to appeal to both a conservative base and the pivotal Latino vote.

With several polls showing a tight race, the candidates have spent the final days of the nearly two-year campaign sprinting across this sprawling city to persuade their supporters to turn out at the voting booth.

A18 NATIONAL A22-26 GoveRaces' Reach Reach New Highs in Expenditures Governors' races across the country are setting records for campaign spending, driven by wealthy, self-financed candidates, tight contests, and aggressive fund-raising by incumbents.

On another occasion he compared the need for public nomination to picking lunch, saying that imposing tight controls on candidates for the role of chief executive was like offering people the chance to eat at one of two shopping centres.

It had been an agonizing search because it was right in the middle of a hot niche, which meant there was a very tight supply of candidates.

In a tight vote, some candidates may claim a mandate based on support from less than one in 10 of the local population.