Sentence examples for was narrowly lost from inspiring English sources

It passed the ministers but was narrowly lost in the parliament.

The 1995 vote was narrowly lost by the separatists and since then, the question has been on the back burner.

While the ATP 250-level tournament was narrowly avoiding losing its second seed, top seed Gael Monfils withdrew, citing patella inflammation and pain in both knees.

His State of Law coalition, which is Shiite, narrowly lost to a Sunni-Shiite bloc led by a former interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, winning 89 seats to Mr. Allawi's 91.

Mr. Ambrosini said he discovered the damage to his door on Jan . 28 the day after Ms. Roberts was narrowly re-elected and Mr. Rosenthal lost.

He lost and was narrowly overridden, though his supporters interpreted the moment as a sign that the embattled president still had some fight in him.

He was narrowly defeated by David Miller, who then lost to Judy Baar Topinka in the general election.

Major battles were won, some narrowly lost, but ultimately victory is inevitable.

As it was, Obama very narrowly lost the primary, while rolling up a huge win in the million-plus turnout caucuses that night.

United States Representative Bobby Jindal, Republican of Louisiana, a second-generation Indian-American who was elected from a district whose population is 1.5percentt Asian, narrowly lost his bid for governor in 2003 and recently began a campaign for this year's election for governor — in a state where Indian-Americans account for about 1percentt of the population.

He was narrowly defeated by less than 400 votes, losing to Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir Francis Burdett.