Sentence examples for on the razor's edge from inspiring English sources

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On a razor edge.

If something is on a razor edge, it it is in a risky situation and the outcome is very uncertain.

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This is a ride on the razor's edge, it's three minutes to midnight.

"It's on the razor's edge," Walid Jumblatt, a politician and a leader of the Druse minority who has emerged as a kingmaker, said in an interview.

(Ratliff) * TONY MALABY, ANGELICA SANCHEZ, TOM RAINEY (Tomorrow) Now a well-seasoned trio, this is one of the better units on the razor's edge of free jazz and structured composition.

"We are on the razor's edge," Mr. Parish said.

It happens in real time: on the razor's edge.

And so I hover on the razor's edge.

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Here is Mark Twain advising Kipling ("Write for and about boys"), Lord Curzon on frontiers ("the razor's edge on which hang suspended the issue of war or peace and the life of nations") and the verdict of the first Englishman to enter Lhasa ("Dirt, dirt, grease, smoke. Misery, but good mutton").

It's at the razor's edge of decency".

But the failure of the capsule's flight controls, combined with a loss of communications and apparent parachute problems, underscored the razor's edge on which human space flight is teetering in the wake of the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia in February.

After the contest, Ramon tried to perform the "Razor's Edge" on The Roadie, but Jarrett attacked him and applied the figure four leglock.

They are not putting pressure (on India)." India continues to walk the razor's edge between Beijing and Dharamsala.

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