Sentence examples for was closely won from inspiring English sources

I think the pretty strong message from the parliamentary Labour party was they wanted to make sure that we talk about what's happened in the election last week in a constituency like mine, where it was closely won, but there are some real issues for us to look at.

The match was closely fought Agdestein won the first game, Carlsen the second so the match went into a series of two-game rapid matches until there was a winner.

The National Gamekeepers Organisation (NGO) was closely involved in winning the licences and had threatened NE with judicial review if they were not granted.

Boston Scientific marketed Medinol's Nir brand stents after the Israeli company, which is closely held, won approval to sell them in Europe in 1996 and the United States in 1998.

His impressive focus in a sudden-death victory over Bubba Watson in the P.G.A. Championship last summer was closely followed by a win at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship to start the season.

He was quick to point out that the spectacular win was closely followed by a top-five finish by team-mate Louis Meintjes on stage 15 the following day.

England won the tournament, which was closely followed by an equivalent ODI Quadrangular.

As Nate Silver keeps saying — and one can place the qualifications my colleague John Cassidy laid out on that phrase — Ohio has a fifty-per cent chance of being the deciding state this election, meaning that its electoral votes will be the most closely won and provide the margin of victory.

"Winning the Gold Cup was probably the greatest day but was closely followed by his success here three weeks later.

Still, he was closely watched.

Evangelicals and very conservative voters – who did not make up as large a portion of the Wisconsin electorate as they did in several of the Southern states Mr. Santorum won – were closely divided between the top two candidates.