Sentence examples for breadth of being from inspiring English sources

It escapes unharmed but two spindly herons come within a feather's breadth of being eaten.

He came within a hair's breadth of being named prime minister of Iraq last spring.

ʿAbbās did not adopt the Ottoman sultans' practice of eliminating royal males by murder (as a child he had been within a hair's breadth of being a victim of such a policy).

She was a last-minute choice of penalty-taker, while he had come within a hair's breadth of being moved on from his spot behind the goal into which she fired the final penalty of the shoot-out in which the USA beat China following a stalemate low on drama but high in tension, in front of over 90,000 supporters at Pasadena's Rose Bowl.

Richard Avedon is an artist whose breadth of work is as rich as it is compelling.

His taste and discernment is extraordinary and the breadth of interests is absolutely remarkable".

"Like everyone else, it's important that all the breadth of humanity be represented," Mrs. Steinem said.

The larval characters that could be meaningfully scored across the breadth of taxa were included.

"The height and breadth of them is breathtaking and you really do feel overawed when you're standing beneath them".

The term "folkstep" was invented to describe it, but fails to convey the breadth of what's going on.

For each codon, we compared the mean RSCU' of the genes whose breadth of expression is below the 25th percentile, with the mean RSCU' of the genes whose breadth of expression is above the 75th percentile.