The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

This issue arose in 2003 when Hideki Matsui narrowly lost the AL award to Ángel Berroa.

Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue, as Defence had lost its fore topmast and Orion was narrowly missed by an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle.

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

Nixon narrowly lost to Kennedy.

Madero responded by founding the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and ran for municipal office in 1904, though he lost the election narrowly.

Prodi's government became the third-longest to stay in power before he narrowly lost a vote of confidence, by three votes, in October 1998.

Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage.

After narrowly winning the primary, he lost the general election.

The Cowboys had chances to go to the first two Super Bowls, but narrowly lost to the Green Bay Packers in both the 1966 and 1967 NFL Championship games.

After having hit for the league's Triple Crown in 1947, Williams narrowly lost the MVP award in a vote where one midwestern newspaper writer left Williams entirely off his ten-player ballot.

When Hayes appeared to have narrowly lost the election, the Republicans launched recount efforts.

The ALP did endorse incumbent Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti who lost narrowly to Dewey's running mate Thomas W. Wallace.

Democratic U. S. Senator Patty Murray narrowly carried Clark County in the United States Senate election in Washington, 2010 with 52 % of the vote, but lost the county to Republican Senate candidate George Nethercutt in 2004.

Labor narrowly lost the 1928 state election to the Nationalist Party.

Janmaat narrowly escaped with his life, CD secretary ( and later wife of Janmaat ) Wil Schuurman lost a leg because of injuries sustained jumping out of a window to escape the fire.

Ulysses S. Grant sought a third term in 1880 after serving from 1869 to 1877, but narrowly lost his party's nomination to James Garfield.

He narrowly lost to conservative Republican Bob Dornan.

Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired from politics in September 1964, a month before the 1964 election which the Conservatives narrowly lost to Labour, now led by Harold Wilson.

Colfax was nominated for Congress in 1850, but narrowly lost to his Democratic opponent.

In 1880, again a presidential election year, he once more lost narrowly, and he lost again in 1882 in his final race for Congress.

In the Bauxite city precinct, Creekmore narrowly lost to Hutchinson 51 %- 49 %, while Mayberry beat his Democratic challenger by a 76 % to 24 % margin.

In the 2004 presidential election, he ran as vice president on the ticket of KMT chairman Lien Chan ; they narrowly lost to Chen Shui-bian.

Initially leading in the polls, Soong narrowly lost the election with 36. 84 % of the vote to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party with 39. 3 %.

New Prime Minister Tillman Thomas formed a government after narrowly losing by one seat to Mitchell's NNP in the November 2003 election.

In 1972, Ashcroft ran for a Congressional seat in southwest Missouri in the Republican primary election, narrowly losing to Gene Taylor.

However, the situation in Western Australia and South Australia, where the party is more clearly differentiable from the Liberals, is quite different, with the Nationals narrowly missing out on winning a second seat in South Australia in 2006 and winning a safe Liberal seat in Western Australia in 2005.

Along with other Unionist MPs, Powell resigned his seat in protest and then narrowly regaining it at the ensuing by-election.

In the general election of 1950, his constituency was altered and he was narrowly elected for the new seat of Huyton near Liverpool.

Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time the county was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1887 to determine the permanent county seat.

Several replacement courthouses were build during the late 19th century and several votes to move the county seat to Mayville narrowly failed.

Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time Morrow County was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1886 to determine the permanent county seat.

Still in uniform, Healey gave a strongly left-wing speech to the Labour Party conference in 1945, shortly before the general election in which he narrowly failed to win the Conservative-held seat of Pudsey and Otley, doubling the Labour vote but losing by 1, 651 votes.

In 1974, Kibaki, facing serious competition for his Doonholm Constituency seat from a Mrs. Jael Mbogo, whom he had only narrowly and controversially beaten for the seat in the 1969 elections, moved his political base from Nairobi to his rural home, Othaya, where he was subsequently elected as Member of Parliament.

In January 1996, Wyden narrowly defeated Oregon State Senate President Gordon Smith in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Bob Packwood.

After narrowly losing that seat in 1987 to Andrew Smith, he re-entered the House of Commons at a by-election for Epping Forest in 1988.

There were no changes in the West or South areas ( there was much speculation that demographic change would deliver a Sinn Féin a seat in South, however these claims turned out to be unfounded, with the SDLP being the sixth placed runner up, being narrowly beaten by the UUP for the fifth seat.

The Conservative candidate Kenneth Carlisle narrowly won the seat with a 602 vote majority, the first time the Conservatives had won at Lincoln since 1935.

At the 1983 general election she won the seat only very narrowly ; the Labour majority was 421.

The ILP narrowly held his seat in the Glasgow Bridgeton by-election, 1946 ( against a Labour opponent ).

In 1972, Kucinich ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, losing narrowly to incumbent Republican William E. Minshall, Jr. After Minshall's retirement in 1974 Kucinich sought the seat again, this time failing to get the Democratic nomination, which instead went to Ronald M. Mottl.

The GOP tide also brought to victory five Republican members of the United States House of Representatives, including William Louis Dickinson, who held the Montgomery-based district seat until 1993, and James D. Martin, the Gadsden oil products dealer who had narrowly lost the 1962 Senate race and had his eyes on Wallace's own position as governor.