| York was on a knife-edge tonight as the city's flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge. |
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| The livelihoods of 6,000 people are on a knife-edge, as they wait to be told if Rover can continue as a going concern. |
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| Continued price wars between supermarkets could place the fragile recovery of British agriculture on a knife-edge again. |
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| O'Neill converted to give the Vikings a 14-10 lead before Cooke added a penalty to put the game on a knife-edge at half-time. |
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| In what was described as a knife-edge decision, the members of the board voted by four votes to two in favour of the transfer. |
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| If you don't back your files up, especially if you're a very small business, you're living on a knife-edge. |
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| The court was told that, amid a falling property market and rising construction costs, the whole development was on a knife-edge. |
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| Hopes of settling the bitter firefighters' dispute were on a knife-edge last night after union leaders issued a new deadline for reaching a deal. |
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| The knife-edge focus creates a compelling and hypnotic dance experience that is resonant, dramatic, and richly theatrical. |
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| The city was on a knife-edge tonight as its flood defences faced their toughest test following the continuing deluge. |
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| The second conclusion is a psychological one: the leaders of Al Qaeda from now on know that they are living on a knife-edge. |
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| Under reduced sail and lacking a keel for a week, they are continuing their incredible, perilous knife-edge voyage. |
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| The knife-edge conveyor GAL-25RMK is the perfect solution for the transport of very small objects. |
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| For knife-edge pleats, with fabric right side up, fold first marked line over to meet with second-marked line. |
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| High structural stability, i.e. no shifting of media, excellent knife-edge sealing. |
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| We were on a knife-edge by the last few minutes and that's what brought about the mistake at the back. |
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| This week's interest-rate decision by the Bank of England's monetary policy committee is on a knife-edge, amid further evidence that the economy is weakening. |
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| Median incomes may be higher than the national average but many of the young families in these areas are on a financial knife-edge as a result of huge mortgages. |
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| House prices look to be on a knife-edge but, whatever happens to the property market, they look set to remain the nation's favourite topic of discussion for a while longer. |
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| During the winter of 1831-32, the nation stood on a knife-edge. |
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| The economy is still on a knife-edge and there is growing popular discontent with falling living standards and the lack of basic democratic rights. |
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| Gas supplies, however, are on a knife-edge and any problem, including minor equipment breakdowns or higher summer temperatures, will produce immediate cuts. |
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| After a year of falling markets, the US economy is now on a knife-edge. |
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| Meanwhile, flood-threatened parts of North Yorkshire remained on a knife-edge today, waiting for river levels to reach their peaks following record rainfalls. |
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| This is going to be the most knife-edge election for a long, long time. |
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| After another couple of hours, we made our way gradually along a knife-edge ridge, careful to stay off the cornice which hung over a spectacular 1,000 metre drop to our right. |
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| Halfway through this fairly pedestrian game matters were poised on a knife-edge. |
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| We must be able to live in freedom on the knife-edge between light and darkness. |
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| To apply tapotement, use the knife-edge side of the hand and keep the wrist loose. |
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| We could plainly see all the knife-edge creases in his trousers and the gleaming white blancoed webbing belt around his middle. |
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| The plan failed to achieve a simple majority of the Ankara parliament in a knife-edge vote on Saturday. |
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| He said that the ballot was balanced on a knife-edge and that it looked to be tipping against the Prime Minister and his top-up fee plans. |
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| Some habitats must in fact remain on the knife-edge of instability to retain the biological interest attributed to them, and keeping them there requires taking specific management measures. |
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| It is within living memory that we have had to fight the battle of the Atlantic and we have had to live on a knife-edge for freedom because continental countries seem to find it impossible to live together. |
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| Meanwhile, songs like Peut-Être pack a powerful emotional punch, lovers promising each other the world while teetering on the knife-edge of uncertainty. |
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| Simultaneously, the top of the parison is cut free by a hot knife-edge. |
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| Reusable knife-edge seal end cap with stainless steel spring. |
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| It is a knife-edge on which a city stands. |
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| Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car. |
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| It would be a serious mistake to leave the job only half done, because the transitional process remains poised on a knife-edge. |
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| Computer simulation of the peeling process can be used to visualize the events occurring at the knife-edge and aid in the development of new lathe controls. |
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| On a knife-edge Not quite so keen ReprintsNight shifts at his father's petrol pump helped him pay for university, and so to the tough competitive exams that led to the magistracy. |
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| In terms of grinding configuration, knife-edge bits produced a higher bulk density compared with carbide hammer bits but only for the pulpwood piece size class. |
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