He was a popular leader but lost the election by a very narrow margin.
You're working on a very narrow margin, you see, between bit and miss.
But by a narrow margin, things are getting better in Iraq.
Running on the Democratic line, he won election by a narrow margin.
He caught it, true, but only by a very narrow margin.
He and his wife lived on a very narrow margin.
The name change was passed by a narrow margin of 3,123 to 3,003.
There wasn't room for that in the narrow margin of life left to them.
On 16 February 1936, the left won by a narrow margin.
In 1986 he lost by a narrow 52% to 48% margin.
A pretty slim margin to hang a man's life on.
The Republicans hold a slim margin, 36 to 25, and some of them have had close calls in recent years.
"We just take a slimmer margin than some other people."
Kennedy's performance helped him win the election by a slim popular margin.
That is a slim margin, the difference between finishing 18th and 43rd in a race.
In past years, China has been able to block the vote, but by slim margins.
He gave some of it back, then held on to a slim margin.
She lost the event by the slim margin of three points, 6,406 to 6,403.
The vote was nearly even with the No side winning by a slim margin.
"It felt good to win, not just by a slim margin, but to take control of the game."
Arranging the diversion was the thing that finally lost him his thin margin of control.
The Bengals won by thin margin in the last game.
He survived the vote by a thin margin of 85-79.
These requirements are especially felt among smaller businesses with already thin margins.
By a thin popular and electoral margin, Wilson wins a second term.
"We have to stretch our Democratic membership over a very thin margin," he said.
The thin margins also strain the company's ability to develop new products and features.
And a thin margin of background to the left.
A new constitution was approved in a referendum by a rather thin margin.
The two vessels were separated only by a thin margin of river.
"Art is something that lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal."
But he had lost to Congress candidate by a slender margin of around 1900 votes.
Only later would the two men realize the slender margin of their escape.
The Nets toyed with a 14-point lead early in the third quarter, then held on to a slender 70-69 margin going into the fourth.
Actually he knew he had, though by a rather slender margin.
The polls put him ahead, but only by a slender margin, with a sizable undecided vote.
Rankine retained the seat in 2002, with a slender margin of 3.2 percent.
He lost with a slender margin of 1100 votes.
A president - and a party - should not worry about slender margins of victory or legislative control.
The question soughed through him: How many chances had he missed, by what slender margins, throughout all the years?