Sentences with phrase «on a knife edge»

The implication is that we currently happen to be balanced on the knife edge of exactly the optimum world temperature for mankind.

Winning a living from sea and soil is hard, sometimes on a knife edge of risk.

As cars pushed the limits of human ingenuity, drivers lived on a knife edge between life and death.

For a while after that the game was on a knife edge with both sides having chances.

Believe the next election is on an knife edge if you want.

Instead, all that has happened is that several developed countries have now put their electricity supply systems on a knife edge.

The 2015 general election is not balanced on a knife edge.

For Kierkegaard the human soul is poised on the knife edge of lostness.

Watching Real v Athleico Monaco v Juve grinding it out at 0 - 0 for 100 minutes game on a knife edge.

«The future of the UK's financial services rests on a knife edge at the G20.

«Climate change talks still on knife edge after a long night,» U.K. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said on his Twitter feed before China and India spoke.

The Maya, they claim, were living on a knife edge.

He's an Arsenal fan, knows the secretive nature of Arsenal and to my reckoning doesn't want to A) jump the gun, as big deals are always on a knife edge B) spill the beans on an Arsenal deal and get blacklisted by the Arsenal corporates who he may have to deal with in the future.

Although Hazard spent his 85 minutes against Bournemouth picking off the home side, the game was on a knife edge until the final whistle because neither he nor his team could finish the Cherries off.

With the game (and our title challenge) on a knife edge Koscielny was fortunate to avoid his twenty - sixth penalty concession of the season while a close - range header flew just wide.

Going into the game against Sevilla without an away goal put things on a knife edge, but, in...

Tim Farron is reportedly on a knife edge.

Scottish independence on a knife edge: Yes vote closes gap to 6 points after surge in support for breaking up the UK 2 September 2014

General Election on a knife edge: Our exclusive poll shows Labour just ONE per cent behind Tories with 101 days to go 27 January 2015

The relatively small temperature increase has had that outsized effect, the scientist said, because the Antarctic Peninsula «is right on the knife edge between freeze and thaw.»

A popular theme which teeters on a knife edge of truth directed at reality, how far are we from this kind of world?

«School and college budgets are already on a knife edge.

Only by girding your skill and courage and nudging ever closer to the point where you feel your inputs harmonise with the chassis» behaviour can you begin to extract the best from the GT, and even then it feels like you're dancing on a knife edge.

Handling leans towards a real life model but is curious in its execution; a very steep learning curve means that these races are performed on a knife edge.

With the dazzlingly cataclysmic sunsets and portentous musical soundtrack nearby bleeding into her performance, this improbable political commentator takes on a phantasmagoric presence: a talking head belonging to a world on a knife edge between utopia and dystopia.

Quite how that will play out in the coming months is uncertain, but the future of the SFO is once again on a knife edge.

The 2015 election is not on a knife edge and is not too close to call, according to TP columnist Dan Hodges.

Magic doesn't exist whether it's an invisible sky wizard chanting magic spells to make the universe balanced on a knife edge of corruptibility so that one reach of a woman's arm upsets the entire mechanism or whether its people in hoods chanting around a block of stone.

Gary Cahill got a goal back right before the hour mark, which really put the game on a knife edge.

Scottish independence: New poll shows vote is on a knife edge with just five points separating Yes and No camps 11 July 2014

The whole place feels like it's resting on a knife edge, and the most gentle nudges could send it crashing back down to earth.

Ghanaian politics is on a knife edge after a closely - fought presidential election on 7 December failed to establish a winner.

The 2016 - 17 Premier League title race is on a knife edge, but everything points to Arsenal firmly being involved in the hunt for major silverware come May.

I agree Twigg, I feel as though be are on a knife edge and we can go either way, a couple of top signings and timely substitutions could see us challenge but if we (wenger) chooses to continue we will fail and our only hope with be fouth again I love when I hear Tierry Henry talk, he states he always wants to be better choose better, I know he's a novice but a winner will always be a winners, I hope he returns one day

Schneiderlin is more like a classic CM — a player who can defend, and attack, and switch between on a knife edge.

With the tie poised on a knife edge, the fans began to grow restless when Mitchell Te Verde was given a controversial red card.

After the 1 - 1 scoreline at the Bernabeu in the first leg, the tie is on a knife edge, but the Madrid team has hit good form and confidence at just the right time following back to back wins against Barcelona.

For the first 40 minutes, Chelsea had maintained their shape, and the match was balanced on the knife edge.

Polls at the time mistakenly suggested the election was on a knife edge, with Ed Miliband standing a good chance of becoming prime minister of a minority, or coalition government.

Tim Farron is on a knife edge.

Unless it's on a knife edge, broadcasters might soon start officially calling the result.

British Election Study data reveal that a referendum on EU membership, were it held tomorrow, would be on a knife edge, with the battleground being for the 15 % of voters who are currently undecided.

Especially if the final vote is on a knife edge.