Sentence examples for on the thin thread from inspiring English sources

Blaggy's future hung on the thin thread of one juror who, it was later revealed, had been offered Obama's old Senate seat for holding out.

There are many types but generally of the thinner threads, the only impact is on the final look (whether it comes out shiny or more matte in finish).

There was no real national verdict, except perhaps that the thin thread of public support by which Labour had clung on to power in 2005 had snapped.

Nestled on the sands of a Jamaican beach where the thin threads of tourism erect a safety net for locals falling into poverty, a writer's workshop pushes the limits of creativity to locate new sites of resistance.

But with the thin threads left, the prosecutors convicted one defendant.

All are hanging by the thinnest thread.

In the PRECICE system, the thinner-thread rod means that it is possible to break.

"If they really believe that their case turns on being able to surprise a witness, I think their case rests on fairly thin threads to begin with," Ms. Coakley said.

But even then a result can hang on a thin thread.

Like Ian Huntley, he waited until he knew the hard facts of the prosecution case before deciding on his own thin thread of a story, which, though feeble, did enough to persuade at least some of the jury that he might not be guilty of murder but of manslaughter.

We marked the position of the caterpillars by tying a thin thread on the plant just behind the abdominal prolegs, taking care not to disturb the caterpillars.