Sentences with phrase «by the whiskers on»

He's ready to seize the Chinese dragon by its whiskers on a host of issues ranging from North Korea and the South China Sea, to intellectual property rights and immigration.

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...

Not exact matches

Barca did win a free - kick on the edge of the area for a foul by Arbeloa after on Iniesta for which he was booked after 37 minutes and Messi's shot went a whisker past the post.

Went toe to to toe with a mid table team and came out on top by a whisker!!!

With McIlroy struggling all day (CBS» Dottie Pepper called his play «flat») and Reed hanging on to the lead by a whisker, Spieth went out with two straight birdies to start, added a third on the fifth hole, and made the turn at 3 - under 33 after two more consecutive birds.

His political career and ambitions nearly ended when by a whisker the Major government survived a vote on the Scott Inquiry into arms for Iraq by one vote.

And under a barrage of blows from the media, the Tory coalition and a bitter faction of his own party, he has rolled with the punches and tightened his grip on a leadership that was his only by a whisker.

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.

Among the 28 new species discovered by the team are four species of tiny tree - mice with whiskers so long they reach nearly to their ankles, and five species of mice that look like shrews and feed primarily on earthworms.

Blindfold a harbor seal, clap headphones on its ears, and the keen hunter will still be able to track a distant fish, using its whiskers to detect the ripples made by its prey.

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.

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).

Finish by tracing a line along the center of your cupid's bow (between the bottom of your nose and top of your lip), then adding 3 whisker dots on either side with a black eye pencil.

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 whisker.

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).