She then confirmed her status as one of the world's leading players, narrowly failing to qualify for the Candidates Tournaments at the rival FIDE and PCA Interzonal tournaments.

She won the titles in the 100 m, 200 m and 80 m hurdles all with large margins of victory ( four tenths or more ), but narrowly missed out on a fourth win in the relay, which was won by the British team.

She narrowly survived only because he soon fell into a drunken stupor and she was able to make her escape.

She narrowly won the election in 1983 by 290 votes.

She narrowly won the Arizona gubernatorial election of 2002 with 46 percent of the vote, succeeding Republican Jane Dee Hull and defeating her Republican opponent, former congressman Matt Salmon, who received 45 percent of the vote.

She qualified for the WTA Championships, narrowly losing to Graf in the first round in three sets.

She sought reelection, but was narrowly defeated in the general election by City Councilman Joe Moakley, a more liberal Democrat who was running as an Independent.

She was narrowly defeated, by only 775 votes to the Labour Party candidate John Davison.

She defeated eight other Republicans in the 1978 primary elections to replace retiring Republican James B. Pearson and then defeated former Democratic Congressman Bill Roy ( who narrowly lost a previous election bid to Kansas's junior senator, Bob Dole, in 1974 ) in the general election.

She narrowly defeated millionaire asbestos lawyer Jim Humphreys.

She narrowly defeated Baker, claiming victory by a margin of 1. 45 % of the vote.

She won the Democratic primary with a plurality of 43 %, but lost the general election narrowly to Republican Stanford law professor Tom Campbell, 51 % 46 %.

She was elected to the United States House in 1996, narrowly defeating one-term Democratic incumbent Mike Ward.

" She narrowly escaped death twice in late 2004: first after an explosion at a Temptation concert in Colombo, Sri Lanka ; and second during the Indian Ocean earthquake.

She was narrowly defeated by a more conservative Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan who went on to be elected and served four terms.

She garnered the largest plurality of votes in the first round of voting, but not enough to win outright ; she was eventually narrowly defeated in the second round by rival Martine Aubry by the margin of 42 votes.

She was using a gun she bought in haste that same morning and did not know the sights were six inches off the point-of-impact at that distance and she narrowly missed.

She narrowly missed qualification for the final.

She was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary by Eric Clark, the eventual winner.

She narrowly lost that race to Republican incumbent J. Craig Wright.

She had stood previously at the 2002 general election for a seat in the Cork South – Central constituency, and narrowly losing the fifth and final seat to John Dennehy of Fianna Fáil.

She had previously contested the 1999 European Parliament election in the same constituency ( then called Connacht – Ulster ), but had narrowly failed to be elected, losing out to Dana Rosemary Scallon for the third seat in the constituency.

She narrowly won the Democratic nomination over incumbent Ross S. Sterling.

She was one of a handful of GOP members who called for a full set of new leadership elections for whip, conference chair, and other offices below the majority leader position, but that motion narrowly failed the day before the majority leader race.

She says that Loki is lying, that he is just looking to blather about misdeeds, and since the gods and goddesses are furious at him, he can expect to go home defeated.

She first defeated an International Master, Dolfi Drimer, at age 10, and a Grandmaster, Vladimir Kovacevic, at age 11.

She became first lady after her husband defeated Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, " Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest to his wife.

She was defeated and killed by an army commanded by Maurice de Londres of Oystermouth Castle.

She is defeated in the Battle of Watling Street by a Roman wedge formation.

She defeated him the first time they met, after being introduced by a mutual friend, Don MacAskill.

She ruled over Egypt until 274, when she was defeated and taken as a hostage to Rome by Emperor Aurelian.

She defeated Venus and Serena Williams for the first time since 2000, which she said instilled belief in her that she could win more Grand Slam tournaments.

She gave birth on Mount Coatepec, pursued by her children, but the newborn Huitzilpochtli defeated most of his brothers, who became the stars.

She defeated the demon's army, killed the demon, and hence restored peace and order to the world.

She was further said to have made war on the last remaining independent monarch in Asia, king Stabrobates of India, but was defeated and wounded, abdicating in favour of her son Ninyas.

She then met and defeated the world champion Tracy Byrd to become Mexico's first woman world boxing champion.

She tells him that he will not be defeated unless the very trees of Spider's Web forest rise against the castle.

She was defeated by a 3-1 margin in the elections of November 2007 by Philip Fawcett.

She started the year strongly, with six tournament victories heading into the French Open, the highlight being at the tournament in Miami, where she defeated Martina Navratilova in a semifinal and Chris Evert in the final and conceded only 20 games in the seven rounds of the tournament.

She defeated Novotná and Graf to reach the final in Key Biscayne, where she defeated Serena in three sets in the first final on the WTA Tour to be contested by two sisters.

She defeated Hingis in the semifinals and World No. 4 Jennifer Capriati in the final, after saving eight championship points.

She returned in late April on clay in Warsaw, where she defeated former world no.

She then advanced to reach her sixth Wimbledon final, after beating Svetlana Kuznetsova and Ana Ivnovic en route to the final where she defeated 18th seed Marion Bartoli.

She defeated 17th-seeded Francesca Schiavone in the fourth round.

She defeated World No. 9 Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals and World No. 13 Marion Bartoli in the semifinals to reach her third straight WTA tour final and fourth Sony Ericsson Open final.

She was defeated by Kim Clijsters in the final in just 58 minutes, ending her 15-match winning streak.