Sentences with phrase «balanced on a knife edge»

But right now the season is balanced on a knife edge and could swing several ways.
For the first 40 minutes, Chelsea had maintained their shape, and the match was balanced on the knife edge.
The 2015 general election is not balanced on a knife edge.
However, we will keep hoping in secret that by changing nothing we will balance on that knife edge.
We ended up using an inverse square curve for signature detection that felt like it was balanced on a knife edge but it did eventually give us the results we wanted.
Without negative feedback, a system will tend to have a dynamic much like that of a billiard ball balanced on a knife edge; any minor perturbation will send it hurtling off in one direction or the other.

Not exact matches

«The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife - edge, but that the entire universe is balanced on a knife - edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural «constants» were off even slightly.
I know there are many Allegri defenders on here so please tell me what I'm missing because the last thing I feel is pride when you can practically always predict that «Juve will play amazingly until they have barely enough of a result balancing on the edge of a knife, then they will switch to negative defensive football».
United played out an oddly thrilling stalemate against the Blues today to leave Van Gaal's future still balancing on a knife - edge.
Conversely, the electoral division you live in might be on a knife edge, giving disproportionate weight to the small number of votes that can tip the balance.
As the English physicist Arthur Eddington pointed out, such a universe was balanced on a knife - edge between runaway expansion and runaway contraction.
It turns out that the struggle between these two was balanced on a knife - edge.
Poor accountability measures mean people lose their jobs, but so does a poor Ofsted, which brings the additional worry of balancing on the knife - edge.
But trying to negotiate corners neatly at any speed is more nerve - wracking than balancing the BMW on a knife - edge of oversteer.
Miller adroitly keeps the reader's focus balanced on the knife - edge of admiring Horowitz's ingenuity and questioning his sanity as the octogenarian and his young charge attempt to elude the police, the bad guys and the voices in his head.
About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.
Alone in a land of pirates, every moment balances on a knife's edge — especially when the pirates» next move could unleash war upon the Witchlands.
It is a work that encapsulates his multicultural practice, balanced on the knife's edge between those essential yet polarised elements of human experience: the sacred and the profane.
It almost seems like whether the stratosphere or parts thereof would cool from increased GHGs in the absense of direct solar heat is a question balanced on a knife's edge, and could go either way depending on specifics...
About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.
About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.
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