Sentences with phrase «by a whisker in»

The only time Bonacic lost a single county was when former New Paltz supervisor and county legislator Susan Zimet took Ulster by a whisker in 2006.

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Jaime Sergio Ivan Lopez and fellow workers in Apparel International's Torreón factory distress Levi's jeans by manually giving them «whiskers.»

Ancient Israel came within a whisker of being able to imagine its future only in the terms permitted and sanctioned by Babylon.

The Gunners lack of success in the big and even in the mediocre games hindered the Gunners from lifting the Barclays Premier League trophy last season, when they missed it by some whiskers of points.

Even House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck, a dedicated foe of anything but smokestacks in the dunes area, squeezed through his gerrymandered Second District by a relative whisker.

Almeria There was no mistaking which area Almeria struggled most with last season as they survived in La Liga by a whisker, despite conceding a whopping 71 times.

There was no mistaking which area Almeria struggled most with last season as they survived in La Liga by a whisker, despite conceding a whopping 71 times.

The one time you do think that you've «won,» judging by the eerie silence for 45 minutes, you'll come crashing back to reality when your threenager exits, covered in sharpie polka dots and whiskers saying that they're a cat.

Wale Odunsi, deputy editor of DAILY POST missed death by the whiskers on Wednesday as a mobile police personnel attached to the Government House in Kogi...

STEFFEN NKANSAH (Eintracht Braunschweig) Braunschweig were one of the teams touted to make a return to the Bundesliga following last term's remarkable campaign — where they came a whisker from booking a top - flight ticket — only to be beaten by VfL Wolfsburg in the playoffs.

A top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen opened fire on him in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

No fewer than 10 persons missed death by whiskers as the vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a truck in Oka - Akoko, Akoko South West...

By running a current through the whisker, the researchers measured the change in resistance and, therefore, the amount of flex.

Researchers have developed artificial whiskers that allow robots to «see» the surroundings in dark and murky places by analysing the way the whiskers respond to water and air flow.

Able to efficiently harness the energy of the whirlpools, the shapely whisker was set in motion even by slow - moving eddies generated by a faraway «fish.»

«By studying neuronal activity in the striatum, we found that the neurons in dopamine - depleted mice did not properly signal if it was the right or left whiskers that were being stimulated,» says Dr Silberberg.

Inspired by rats and seals, scientists have developed a robotic «whisker» that detects air currents and builds two - dimensional images of what it senses using tomography, an imaging technique commonly implemented in MRI or CT scans.

Immediately recognizable by its long tusks and whiskers, the sea walrus is a hefty, flippered member of the Odobenidae family and is, in fact, the last living member of this group.

Asteroid TC4 will pass us by on October 12 at an estimated distance of 31,000 miles — that's an eighth of the distance between our planet and the moon, so just a whisker in astronomical terms.

1) 9» High - Rise Skinny Jeans in Shaw Wash by Madewell ($ 128) / Similar wash with whiskering.

Defined by a faded wash and whiskering, the slim - fit pair boasts a worn - in look that denim expertly adapts to.

Indeed, most denim devotees would urge you not to wash (even by hand) your jackets and jeans for at least six months after purchasing, so as to preserve the fabric, avoid breaking down the fibres, and give your denim chance to take on its own distinct patterns (whiskering at the front, honeycombing behind the knees, perhaps even the shape of your wallet or phone in a pocket).

It's a must - see for Daniel Day - Lewis» charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln — and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones — but a colleague of mine at The Post has a point in describing the film derived from Tony Kushner's wonky script as «C - SPAN with whiskers.»

This is the warning offered to Katniss Everdeen by a frostily whiskered President Snow early in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to the 2012 franchise opener.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whiskeIn the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whiskein the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whiskein Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

Activities to help learners of secondary mathematics to interpret frequency graphs, cumulative frequency graphs and box and whisker plots for large samples and to see how a large number of data points can result in the graph being approximated by a continuous distribution.

In the end the BMW just nicked it by a whisker - at least so far as we were concerned - but the fight slugfest always going to continue when AMG launched the C63 Coupé.

There's actually more leg room in the Mercedes - AMG E63, although the margins are small, while the B5 beats it for head room by a whisker.

[7] A distinguishing trait of the TV was a single front fog lamp, inset in the grille and flanked by two chrome whiskers.

He got into Oxford «by a whisker» and gained a second in Modern History.

Escape Claws Cat Lady Mysteries # 1 By Linda Reilly ISBN 1516104196 lindasreilly.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New HampshirBy Linda Reilly ISBN 1516104196 lindasreilly.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New Hampshirby OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New Hampshire.

In terms of battery, the Galaxy Tab S3 beats Galaxy Tab S2 by a whisker as the former boasts a 6,000 mAh battery, compared to the latter's 5,870 mAh one.

In 2010 there were approximately 72.5 million dogs owned by over 42,000,000 households.1 Additionally, just a whisker under half of those households consider their dog or dogs to be a part of the family.

Nurse sharks are easily recognised by their elongated caudal fin (tail) and barbels (thin, fleshy, whisker - like organs on the lower jaw in front of the nostrils that sense taste and touch).

I could talk about the painful voice acting, the singularly cringe - worthy cut - scenes, the innumerable graphics glitches, or the moments in the game where you die for no apparent reason (especially in the snowboarding level, which is a particularly low point in gameplay terms as it even manages to feature checkpoints that you can miss by a whisker and then continue playing, only to be plonked right back at the start of the level when you inevitably die by running into a pile of rocks that you couldn't see because the camera was pointed the wrong way).

The Running Save is a Defensive Power Shot that Clay and Ace can use in the game Mario Tennis: Power Tour, and is also a Power Shot that is used by Roy, Whisker and Emi, making it (along with Quick Save, Quick - Step Save and High - Power Shot) one of the most frequently used Power Shots in the game.

Even assuming lolwot is right, the recent spike is still a lot smaller than several ones earlier in the Holocene, even though just greater than the Mideval Warm Period, by a whisker, thus justifying «The Mann's» Nobel Peace Prize.

They won before the tribunal (potentially at great financial cost to the union), but then the EAT allowed the union's appeal by a whisker, holding that there was indeed indirect discrimination in the union sacrificing certain (female) members» full legal rights for the greater good of job protection and pay protection for other members but that it was justified — the union's «greater good» argument was a legitimate aim and (more controversially) its means were proportionate, even though it had been distinctly «hard» in its treatment of the refusenik members.

The pixel density weighs in at 286ppi, which beats the Moto by a whisker.

Soon before press time, the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization had hit $ 413 — a whisker short of ether's all - time high of just over $ 414 set in mid-June.