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She narrowly survived only because he soon fell into a drunken stupor and she was able to make her escape.
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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 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 narrowly defeated her nearest rival and Dáil election running mate, Kevin Boxer Moran of Athlone Town Council, causing a controversy when she thanked her election team for working " like blacks.
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 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 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 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 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.
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She edited and published Lavoisier ’ s memoirs ( whether any English translations of those memoirs have survived is unknown as of today ) and hosted parties at which eminent scientists discussed ideas and problems related to chemistry.
She was survived by her husband, and her one daughter from her first marriage to Ioannis Paxinos, whose surname she had been using after their divorce.
She survived a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000 while trying to learn the fates of her Nuba friends during the Sudanese civil war and was airlifted to a Munich hospital.
She was arrested shortly afterward and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag, which she survived.
She was survived by her son don Martín, who would be raised primarily by his father's family, and a daughter doña María who would be raised by Jaramillo and his second wife doña Beatriz de Andrada.
She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments ( P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525 ) published in 1938 and 1983, and a longer 5th-century Coptic translation ( Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1 ) published in 1955.
She survived in Greek folklore as the consort of Dionysos, with whom she was worshiped in some local cults.
She was born Victoria California Claflin, the seventh of ten children ( six who survived to maturity ), in the rural frontier town of Homer, Licking County, Ohio.
She went on to bear Henry a further eight children, six of whom survived infancy, including the future Charles IX ( born 27 June 1550 ); the future Henry III ( born 19 September 1551 ); and Francis, Duke of Anjou ( born 18 March 1555 ).
She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, all of whom were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination of the Imperial Family.
She tragically perished in a Syrian prison during the imprisonment of Hussein's family members, mostly women and children, who survived the Battle of Karbala.
She is shown to have a strong grasp of politics, which may seem unlikely, but this answers the facts of the annulment and the even more unlikely fact that Anne of Cleves survived her marriage to Henry.
" She wrote a poem entitled The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian in two books, of which 800 lines survived, and an inscription of a poem on the baths at Hammat Gader.
She had a total of six children of record born into slavery ; four survived to adulthood and were noted for their resemblance to Jefferson.
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