Sentence examples for on its fingertips from inspiring English sources

Done in oil on metal in the 19th century, it is an image of the upright hand of Jesus, pierced with a nail and balancing figures of the Holy Family on its fingertips.

The robotic arm that A.P.L. had designed could accommodate sensors on its fingertips, and, though Scheuermann did not have the right implants to use the feature, Copeland would: two additional Utah arrays, embedded in his somatosensory cortex.

Cohen: JC Penney is hanging on by its fingertips.

Wise folk are staying indoors and chewing their stockpiles.The government is hanging on by its fingertips.

Trying to eliminate an infectious agent by eradicating its carrier is a tall order unless the insect population is actually only hanging on by its fingertips within an essentially hostile or variable climate, or if there is a reasonable infrastructure to, for example, keep marshes continuously drained.

In this story's case, the unnamed narrator moves into the New England home of Wilbur, his deceased cousin, a "student of archeology and anthropology" who spent years traveling in Mongolia, Tibet, Central America and many other places wild and strange, where civilization held on by its fingertips.

It's still hanging on by its fingertips.

From the Church of England to the Garrick club and beyond, the idea that women require some form of separate treatment is still clinging on by its fingertips, justified by the weasel idea that men and women are fundamentally different, and that this difference justifies different roles in society or the need for different spaces in which men and women can be more fully themselves.

Moreover, it sounds great, evoking the boho New York milieu which these days is hanging on in Manhattan by its fingertips.

IN ONE of the tightest German elections for half a century, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens managed to cling on to power by its fingertips.

Data is available at your fingertips on everything imaginable.