near-run

At the strategic level the abysmal failure to defend Washington and the near-run defense of Baltimore convinced many military thinkers that the country needed both a new coastal defense system and an expanded navy.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

At the strategic level the abysmal failure to defend Washington and the near-run defense of Baltimore convinced many military thinkers that the country needed both a new coastal defense system and an expanded navy.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The near-run game against Penn State (59-57 L) and a win over presumptive SoCon power Citadel give some hope.

Eric Angevine: Early Losses Put Lumps of Coal in Hoops Fans' Stockings 2009

The British general who has been commanding Nato forces has called for a major reinforcement of the multinational coalition efforts in Afghanistan, saying he has 'always been without the resources he would wish for' during his nine months in charge and calling a crucial battle against the Taliban last autumn 'a damned near-run thing'.

Afstan: Negative UK press 2007

The British general who has been commanding Nato forces has called for a major reinforcement of the multinational coalition efforts in Afghanistan, saying he has 'always been without the resources he would wish for' during his nine months in charge and calling a crucial battle against the Taliban last autumn 'a damned near-run thing'.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

I'd cavil at making the break-point the Hess Mission in May 1941 in the novel, Hess apparently succeeded in making effective contact with the Cliveden Set, here renamed and repopulated as the Farthing Set rather than the near-run putsch against Churchill a year earlier.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

The bill's vital signs, in other words, are growing stronger, but it's still a near-run thing.

Remarks By President On Patients Bill Of Rights ITY National Archives 2000

And as you see in all these elections that are genuinely contested, it's a near-run thing.

President Remarks At Dnc Dinner In Los Angeles ITY National Archives 1997

Recalling how much she owed him, for she was too honest not to acknowledge that it had, indeed, been a very near-run thing, she glanced up through her lashes.

A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

Recalling how much she owed him, for she was too honest not to acknowledge that it had, indeed, been a very near-run thing, she glanced up through her lashes.

A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995