Sentences with phrase «falls on a tightrope»
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The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.
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Nik Wallenda became the first man to walk right over Niagara Falls Friday night, a 30 - minute tightrope televised live on ABC News.
This summer, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on allowing world - renowned daredevil Nik Wallenda to perform a tightrope walk over the falls, an event that would almost surely attract tens of thousands of people and potentially provide an economic boost to the area.
Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.
The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.
At times you will be asked to precisely control Mario as he tiptoes on a giant ball across a world full of holes (in an obvious tip of the hat to the Monkeyball franchise), or walks a narrow tightrope path without falling off into a literal black hole of oblivion.
On this tautest of tightropes, I dared to make grand gestures, racing out to the end of the limb and trusting that I would not fall.»
Unless we find a way to build political institutions that produce much more reliable decisions from the raw material of unreliable humans the law of averages means we are sure to fall off our tightrope, and unlike in 1918 or 1945 we won't have anything to clamber back on to...