Many voters took heed, helping Mr Kohl's centre-right coalition, against expectations, to a narrow victory.
Meanwhile, Fiorentina booked their place in the last 16 with a narrow victory over Lyon in Florence.
But Hooper powered over from close range as Bath edged a narrow victory.
The general in September won a narrow victory in its presidential primary.
But three second-half Jarvis penalties saw Bristol home to a narrow victory.
The unbeaten Irish lead the Six Nations table by two points from Wales, who struggled to a narrow victory over Italy in Rome.
Bush, of course, went on to a narrow victory in 2000, with many arguing that personal accounts provided a net gain for him.
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After all, critics complain, Al Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the presidency because he had a narrow victory in the Electoral College.
Those votes led to the closest election in four decades of politics for Baucus, a narrow victory in a bitter campaign against Republican Denny Rehberg.
When President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected in March 2004 he appeared to have performed a miracle, turning a 20% opposition lead into a narrow victory.
The Democratic Party and its centre-left allies won a narrow victory in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate appears split with no party in control.
The clarity of the outcome in itself is good news for Macedonia - the worst possible result would have been a narrow victory for either side.
Landon Donovan's dramatic stoppage-time goal secured a narrow victory over Algeria and fired the United States into the last 16 of the World Cup as group winners.
ATHENS, Greece -- Michael Phelps launched the United States to a narrow victory in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay in Athens to grab his third gold medal in four days.
Wesley Clark proved he was still in the race with a narrow victory over Mr Edwards in Oklahoma and second place in three states: Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota.
But this time, expectations had been for a narrow victory at best for Prime Minister Najib Razak, who fended off the challenge by the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim with some room to spare.
With such a narrow victory, Maduro has little political capital to make some of the difficult choices some of those problems require, said Risa Grais-Targow, Latin America analyst for the Eurasia Group.
So, while generally unwelcome to the West, a narrow victory by the opposition would produce a picture very different from, for example, the Hamas takeover in Gaza, which was violent and absolute.
Meanwhile Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi scored the only goal of the game to give his side a narrow victory over nine-man Catania in the quarterfinal of the in the Coppa Italia .
As the campaign drew to a close, nearly four out of five of the polls conducted since John Major had fired the starting gun gave Labour a slight lead, making a narrow victory look quite likely.
Greece is heading toward new elections next month, with polls suggesting a narrow victory for a radical leftist party that wants to tear up an international loan agreement which forced the government to make deep budget cuts.
After cheering on his compatriots to a narrow victory over Andorra at the raucous temporary beach-volleyball court on Tuesday, Nikos Kolas, the captain of the men's indoor-volleyball team, said he didn't bring any of his worries with him.
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When Greece unexpectedly reached the last eight with a 1-0 win over Russia, a day before key elections which saw a narrow victory for pro-Euro party New Democracy, Greek newspapers were quick to link Friday's game with the country's economic turmoil and strained relations with Germany.
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Vinci said it was significant that Karadzic's arrest had come just a few weeks after the appointment of a pro-western coalition government spearheaded by the Democratic Party of Serbian President Boris Tadic and new Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic following a narrow victory over nationalists in parliamentary elections in May.
While an upset win by the opposition may trigger a sharp selloff on worries of policy uncertainties, a narrow victory by the ruling coalition could spark a more modest fall as investors have already priced in such an outcome, said Pong Teng Sew, head of research at Inter Pacific Securities.
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The conservative Mexican president, who eked out a narrow victory in July, was polite but critical in his assessment of current U.S. immigration policy, which has resulted in millions of Mexicans paying thousands of dollars each to make the risky trip through deserts and mountains to find jobs in America.
Mr Samaras has come a long way since his centre-right New Democracy party scraped a narrow election victory in June.
Kennedy struggled because of a narrow election victory and a conservative coalition in Congress who were unwilling to move on issues such as medical care for the aged or civil rights.
He won the 100m in Annecy and was also a member of the triumphant 4x100m squad, helping the side achieve a narrow overall victory and qualify for the IAAF World Cup in Madrid.
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