It was a close call.

That was at the hairhanging Rybak.

It was hanging hair.

His life is hanging by a thread.

We were hanging on by our fingernails.

My existence is hanging by a thread.

Boy, that was a close shave.

Life's thread is of the weakest kind.

But Senegal s democracy hangs in the balance.

It was a pretty close call.

Is it the moment when things devolve into complete chaos?

It was doubtful, but I think he'll pull through.

Ukraine s future as an independent democratic state hangs in the balance.

But its credibility now hangs by a thread.

I grew up in the hollows of lives hanging from a thread

There were many occasions when South Africa s fate appeared touch and go.

The gecko has a billion of these 200 nanometer sized split ends.

We nearly went extinct. We were hanging on by our fingernails.

Brett Kavanaugh's future hangs in the balance as FBI begins investigation

In between death and life now, please keep praying for us. Aleppo Bana Alabed ( AlabedBana) 28 November 2016

What are the limits of land ownership when nature s legacy is in the balance?

America's fate teetered on a knife edge.

NEW YORK As Egypt s revolution hangs in the balance, what factors are most likely to determine the outcome?

The rhetoric may sound extreme, but with so much hanging in the balance, surely it s justified.

These officials often make it sound as if the livelihood of hundreds of millions of poor people in developing nations hangs in the balance.

Brinkmanship in the spring of 2005 The Liberal government came close to falling when testimony from the Gomery Commission caused public opinion to move sharply against the government.

In my opinion, we have come within a whisker of allowing our blind obsession with EDRMS to turn us into an intellectually sterile, vendor led profession.

Kunjungan kami merupakan pengingat yang berharga bahwa untuk para petani yang paling miskin di dunia, hidup adalah seperti berjalan di titian kabel yang tinggi tanpa jaring pengaman.

The Tahltan have been able, with the support of all Canadians who live downstream, all local politicians, to resist this assault on their homeland, but now everything hangs in the balance.

He couldn't peel himself away, not with Brett Kavanaugh set to face the Senate Judiciary Committee and the future of the Supreme Court hanging in the balance.

And at other times, like now, much that hangs in the balance is affected by the deliberate, personal, and short term tactical considerations of people running for election.

Such scholarly research deserves broad public support (and scholars have led the outcry) because producing valid knowledge requires it, and because the fate of people like my student Alexander Sodiqov hangs in the balance.

Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, prior to taking over leadership of TED. Founder Richard Saul Wurman was leaving, and TED's future was in the balance. He seeks to persuade TEDsters that what was then a for profit conference had a secure future as an idea based nonprofit endeavor.

Syria s implosion, and the chaos and extremism that are likely to breed there, will threaten the entire Middle East the stability of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia hangs in the balance.

With Pakistan s future in the balance, the West s help and support will be crucial, but that means recognizing that Musharraf is not the only leader who can resolve Pakistan s myriad problems and manage the war on terror.

Amid all the attention being devoted to China and the potential for competition or even conflict with the US, it should not be forgotten that Russia s future hangs in the balance, for history suggests that declining powers can pose as great a challenge to world order as rising ones.