Sentence examples for by a thread and from inspiring English sources

"The nuclear renaissance was already hanging by a thread, and the Japanese disaster may have cut the thread".

"They're hanging on by a thread, and sometimes when we're asking them to do it, you wonder how they can".

The paper's analyst admitted that the outcome "hung by a thread, and forecasts are, at the very least, uncertain".

A giant section of an Antarctic ice shelf is hanging by a thread and could break off at any moment, researchers have revealed.

"But the Postal Service is hanging by a thread, and Congress needs to move forward with legislation to address the problems the agency faces".

"As we meet in Brighton the entire British industry is hanging by a thread and yet the Government seems reluctant to act decisively," she will say.

Whether displaying suck-it-up stoicism or hanging-by-a-thread fragility, these diverse men and women vividly convey the profound personal transformations their deployment has wrought.

BY A THREAD, by Jennifer Estep.

We are the invisible diaspora, in our 60s and 70s, living on the edge, hanging by a thread, embarrassed and riddled with fear and hopelessness, borrowing a couple of bucks to feed our cats.

Throw in a little blood and "hanging on by a thread" visual and I'm on the next bus.

"Everything is hanging by a thread … and if it is cut, it could lead the country to absolute catastrophe," said the deputy premier, Evangelos Venizelos, whose centre-left Pasok party is junior partner in Athens' two-party coalition.