At the 1922 and 1923 elections the Liberals won barely a third of the vote and only a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons, as many radical voters abandoned the divided Liberals and went over to Labour.

In early 1995, South Africa won one-off tests against both Pakistan and New Zealand, in Auckland Cronje scored the only century of the match before a final day declaration left his bowlers barely enough time to dismiss the Kiwis.

Despite barely missing the playoffs and receiving the least chance of gaining the top draft pick with only one ball in the lottery, the Magic won the first pick in the 1993 NBA Draft Lottery.

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" The contest was extremely closely fought, and Healey won by a margin of barely 1 %.

Švejnar won the Chamber of Deputies, but Klaus led in the assembly as a whole and barely failed to achieve the requisite majority.

In stark contrast, the party barely won 1 % of the vote that year in the Alsatian department of Bas-Rhin and did poorly in the east of France, much more industrialized and much less agrarian.

In 2006, Cubin won her seat again, but barely, registering 48. 3 percent of the vote to her Democratic opponent Gary Trauner's 47. 8 percent.

Cargo won the general election of 1966, when he barely defeated Democrat T. E.

" Roenick was also an analyst for NBC during the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, where, after the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, he became overwhelmed emotionally, barely holding back tears and addressing the Blackhawks organization and their fans by saying: " For the kid who was there in 1992 who was crying when I came off the ice in after we lost Game 4 at Chicago Stadium — you waited 18 years.

The party won a majority government in 1935, barely months after its formation, and remained in power until 1971.

In the province's first election, the 1905 election, the Conservatives, led by future Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett, won only two seats and were barely able to improve on that in subsequent elections.

Eventually the contest was " won " by a singer named Jamie Foss, a buxom young blonde girl ( who bore a resemblance to Jessica Simpson ) who could barely carry a tune.

In 1994, barely a year after Jean Todt took up the challenge, Gerhard Berger won the German Grand Prix ( Ferrari ’ s first win in 4 years ).

Coach Ralf Rangnick had started a restructuring of the team that won the UI Cup, but the resulting extra strain of the UEFA cup participation ended in barely escaping from relegation in 2001 by clinching 15th spot.

Merckx, who had won the Tour de France five times previously and at the time was in the leader's yellow jersey, finished the stage barely able to breathe, and went on to finish the tour in second place overall.

The government barely won a division in the Lords on the inclusion of Weston-super-Mare in Avon, by 42 to 41.

In 1958 American rider Dave Schuler, riding a borrowed and barely modified MV 175 Sport street bike, won the 175 class at the famed Catalina Island GP off-road race, in California.

Despite spending over $ 800, 000 from his vast warchest collected as Speaker, for a job that paid barely $ 45, 000, Householder won the election by fewer than 270 votes.

Stoner polled more votes for lieutenant governor than were cast for all four candidates in the Republican gubernatorial primary, which Thompson had only barely won.

For example, George W. Bush barely won the district in 2000 and 2004.

He barely won the general election that year, edging out Democrat Patrick Casey, son of former Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey, by 515 votes.

Yet Kennedy and Johnson barely won the Texas electoral votes over Richard M. Nixon.

Despite a widespread belief that the team would barely win enough to stay in the J1, the team won four games in a row since its opening game and managed to finish at the 7th spot.

First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

In this way, you can arrange his legs and arms in any desired position, with feet, or one foot, barely resting on the pedestal.

The team was back in the airport terminal barely ten minutes when the call to reconvene on the plane came, and a number of passengers began to feel nervous.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.

* The scene with Bruce Wayne reaches Wayne Manor barely alive and sits before his father ’ s bust, requesting guidance in his war on crime.

From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan.

The Rolling Stones, still barely known outside London at that time, appeared as a supporting act on the same bill.

* Jeremiah Gottwald from Code Geass becomes a cyborg when he barely survives the Battle of Narita and is turned into one when a team of government scientists operate on him experimentally.

The conflict was both technical and social: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon.

" " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " is particularly interesting because it is a barely fictionalized account based on Poe's theory of what happened to the real-life Mary Cecilia Rogers.

When Diocletian reappeared in public on 1 March 305, he was emaciated and barely recognizable.

Many of these species bore the main weight of their bodies on their central, third, toe, with the others becoming reduced, and barely touching the ground, if at all.

The most dramatic manifestation was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment, from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing on the chest to look bigger.

The album's singles barely registered on Urban contemporary radio, where disco music remained popular.

This situation continued until the late 1990s, when fullbore rifles of calibres up to. 270 Winchester were permitted to be licenced for the purposes of deer hunting on humane grounds ( prior to this, only the. 22 – 250 cartridge was available for deer hunting and it was felt to be only barely capable of this task ).

The narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected ( unsuccessfully ) into human beings, eventually returns to England ; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting to their animal natures.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.