Sentences with phrase «only by a whisker»

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.

The third most popular reason to grow a beard is to feel more masculine, which gained 12 % of the vote — meaning that attractivity beat masculinity, but only by a whisker.

This is one of those rare occasions where the sequel is better than the original - but only by a whisker.

It's actually slightly shorter than the Golf too, though only by a whisker.

But only by a whisker.

Not exact matches

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

The chancellor talks now as if he has inherited a recession and delivered growth — but he inherited growth and only avoided two recessions by a whisker.

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.

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.

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.

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

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