Sentences with phrase «not by a whisker»

Now he's triumphed not by a whisker, but with a landslide, the Blairites appear to realise they must be seen to accept the result.

Not exact matches

They are strong, sound dogs of excellent hunting conformation, yet they were beaten by the long - coupled, light - boned show types, with their whiskers and nails trimmed and their already fine coats stripped down to where they wouldn't dare go near a briar patch.

«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.

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).

They feel as if Sport mode isn't set up as the engineers and test drivers would like it because they've been overruled by the marketing department and market researchers who told them customers don't want a snadge more rebound damping and a whisker of extra response from the throttle.

Perhaps the only area where it doesn't match the German spec is ride comfort — but only by a tiger cub's whisker.

Careful not to get too close as to disturb them, the occasional sea lion would lift his head and reveal his long whiskers as we passed by, checking out the new aquatic visitors.

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).

Yet PDFs require more, not less, information than simple estimates flanked by error - whiskers, and are still less likely to be reliable.

The winning horse might only win by a hair... and that whisker might be the tool you have that your competition doesn't.