Sentence examples for by a thread with from inspiring English sources

That leaves Platini's bid hanging by a thread, with only two other formal candidates.

But even before the botched coup in Turkey, the deal had been hanging by a thread with Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, insisting he would not re-write Turkey's counter-terrorism laws - a key condition of the visa deal.

City remain second in the table but both their domestic and European hopes hang by a thread, with a 5-point deficit to Chelsea looking insurmountable and Barcelona well-placed to progress in the Champions League.

POSIX provides the mutex function to create a critical region by a thread with exclusive access to an object (a piece of memory) Fig. 5.

The American auto industry is hanging by a thread, with the fate of General Motors and Chrysler largely in the hands of the federal government.

The defeat leaves the Bluebirds' hopes of avoiding an instant return to the Championship hanging by a thread with just five games remaining.

The characteristic molting positions of the spiders, as described by Melchers [10], could easily be detected in the photos: Cupiennius prepares for ecdysis by attaching itself horizontally to a thread with its dorsal side pointing downwards.

With Atlanta's season hanging by a thread, Matt Ryan dealing with turf toe and Michael Turner having aggravated his high ankle sprain, this game will be much more about the Falcons' survival than Vick's.

Their hopes to advance hang by a jersey thread, with unbeaten Belgium, which has already clinched a spot in the round of 16, looming on the schedule. .

After months of drama in the eurozone and its own solvency hanging by a thread, Greece reacted with euphoria on Tuesday at the news that international creditors had decided to not only revitalise its rescue programme, releasing long-overdue aid, but cut €40bn (£32bn) from its debt mountain.

Each one of these tasks is executed by a thread that cooperates with the other threads making up the agent.