Sentences with phrase «on a tightrope on»

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Wallenda says that when he's walking on the wire he doesn't need a safety net because the tightrope itself serves the same purpose.

Twitter is walking on a tightrope here.

He even hired the world - famous Wallendas to drink the improved coffee on a tightrope strung over the streets of Detroit.

Geoff Blaber, vice president of research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that by leading off the conference with a focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»

However, if you're walking a tightrope on your budget every month and seriously worry about being able to make your payments, that's another conversation.

More often than not, maintaining it is a balancing act between credit and cash on hand, and it's a tricky tightrope to walk.

teachers have to walk a very thin tightrope of classroom management because if one kid even hints at a teacher molesting, improper touching, saying or doing something wrong towards that child, the teacher is automatically put on suspension and kids know this and use this to their advantage.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

Nik Wallenda became the first man to walk right over Niagara Falls Friday night, a 30 - minute tightrope televised live on ABC News.

But Ramirez could hit enough to make up the difference and then some, and there's always a tightrope to walk with shortstops on the other side of 35.

This team won't be on a tightrope and Gilling believes Gelo Ball will have some 50 - point games as the offensive focal point.

«Look at the acrobat at the circus who walks on a tightrope high above the ground, who captures everyone's attention.

Earned himself 85 minutes on a tightrope with a needless booking for fouling Rakitic but he dealt well with the pressure and kept a close eye on Messi.

Test your balance on a tightrope, take a closer look at the ornate costumes worn by performers and squeeze into an impossibly tiny clown car.

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

But in today's contentious geostrategic climate, such a «neutral» policy means precariously walking on a tightrope bedeviled by pitfalls and competing interests.

This summer, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on allowing world - renowned daredevil Nik Wallenda to perform a tightrope walk over the falls, an event that would almost surely attract tens of thousands of people and potentially provide an economic boost to the area.

Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.

[Spin Cycle] Capitalizing Callaghan Shifts Into Overdrive [Newsday] Hevesi's Security Detail Twice As Large As Spitzer's [AP] Alan Overdrive [NYP] Aide's «Squad» Car Ride [NYDN] Hevesi Smooches Up Pol Pal [NYP] Thanks to Hevesi, Democrats Face Political Tightrope [NYS] Pataki Picks Ex-Prosecutor to Weigh In on Hevesi Case [NYT] Hevesi: I'd Quit Over Ax [NYP]

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who did not attend the tour Saturday, has found himself walking a tightrope on the issue.

One way to picture this is to imagine a tightrope walker on a high wire.

These days I feel as though I'm walking on a tightrope, with a crowd of ravenous faux robotic nerds on one side and a gaggle of sentimental antiquarians on the other.

There are also lunatics congregating on the other side of the tightrope: those who are treating the mere appearance of rationality as a fetish.

The nature of our future online lives will depend on answering this question, on how we walk the tightrope between total security and innovation - friendly openness.

Dr Thekla Morgenroth, post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the paper said: «When people imagine a risk - taker, they might picture someone risking their fortune at a high - stakes poker game, an ambitious CEO, or someone crossing the Grand Canyon on a tightrope — but chances are that the person they picture will be a man.

«Finding the right balance is like walking a tightrope; our work has focused on finding ways to keep oxidative stress at bay.»

Walk the line: Pretend you're on a tightrope.

Unless you are doing your workouts on a tightrope, while watching the Blair Witch Project, we are really only dealing with a clenched hand causing the other to do the same.

Every time you use your arms to balance by holding them out to the sides like a tightrope walker, you're intuitively taking advantage of the fact that as weight moves away from your center of gravity, it has a greater effect on your equilibrium.

Though warrior I has traditionally be taught with the heel of the front foot lined up with the arch of the back foot (like standing on a tightrope), it makes more sense for most people to separate their feet to either side of the mat a bit more (like standing on train tracks).

Slacklining is the sport of balancing on a rope or strip of webbing, sort of like a tightrope, but generally not stretched as taut.

like so many of your looks, you can read it as a «costume» but it is also just a great, flattering, on - point look - quite a tightrope to walk there:) it was so thoughtful of you to stop by my blog - don't worry, posts are percolating and i've started taking pics of me looks again, almost without thinking about it (habit).

It's catharsis on steroids, walking the tightrope between FYI and TMI.

Director Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.

The Post takes up all the current crises head on, as to what comprises national security, the dangers of conflating the government with the nation, the role of the press and, even the tightrope journalists walk in their friendships with powers - that - be.

Although it lacks the fire and energy of Kazan's masterpieces, Man on a Tightrope is still an expertly crafted and wholly engaging film.

Man on a Tightrope could have easily become cliché ridden propagandistic tripe but Kazan has crafted it into something of substance.

Gleeson, on the other hand, has a harder circle to square, as both antagonist and romantic lead, and to his credit, he stays on the tightrope, even switching between both in one scene as he and Peter feign friendship for each other to appease Bea, only to be resume their fight every time she leaves the room.

Meanwhile, Simon Chinn and James Marsh were surprise winners of the best documentary award for Man On Wire, their acclaimed film following tightrope artist Philippe Petit's hair - raising trip between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on a tightropOn Wire, their acclaimed film following tightrope artist Philippe Petit's hair - raising trip between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on a tightropon a tightrope.

Keep the track of markings on the Cliffside which indicates the right place, climb the cliff until you come across the tightrope and cross the tightrope to find the Banuk Figure.

The tale of French acrobat Philippe Petit's 1974 attempt to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers already formed the basis of an Oscar - winning documentary, Man on Wire, so we assume Zemeckis has a strong shot with this fictionalized retelling featuring a heavily accented Gordon - Levitt.

A thin, barely - visible tightrope hovers over two different yet equally - treacherous perils: on one side, you risk missing the point of the original and creating a follow - up whose character, plot, and theme barely resembles its source; on the other, you simply retread the familiar beats of the previous work, applying a fresh coat of paint to the old structure.

Coraline — Focus Features, 100 mins — Henry Selick's terrifying animated 3D feature focuses on a little girl (voiced Dakota Fanning) who walks a tightrope between reality where her parents pay no attention to her and a parallel fantasy world where her parents are doting but dowright deceitful and dangerous.

That the ambiguity of his stance was ultimately not sustainable is not lost on Tavernier, whose position as an artist in France has been the same kind of deliberate tightrope walk.

Obviously this is an animated film so directors Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon do have the leeway of creating a rather improbable plot, but little children may too realize that giraffes and hippopotamuses can not defy gravity and balance on a tightrope 50 feet (or more) above the ground.

It has been six years now since James Marsh recounted Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in his documentary Man on Wire.

In 2008, James Marsh's Man on Wire, a recounting of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, was one of the most talked about documentaries.