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16 Sentences With "by a hair's breadth"

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The left-leaning politician won the presidency by a hair's breadth over his rival, Norbert Hofer.
Most important, the rule of law will have prevailed despite Trump's relentless efforts to undermine it -- and only by a hair's breadth.
This instability is enhanced by the torque of the colored shapes, suggesting they are detached by a hair's breadth from the picture plane.
Although Samsung regained the title last quarter, it was only by a hair's breadth - 29 percent market share to Xiaomi's 28 percent, according to research firm Counterpoint.
"We were guilty of being very complacent and the funds didn't come, our horses were injured at the wrong time and I just missed qualifying by a hair's breadth," he said.
Online, though, the slightest lag will mean failure, such is the twitchiness of the average match, the need to turn on sixpences and duck out the way of knockout lasers by a hair's breadth.
"My father would be extremely delighted if they take steps to realise a permanent peace regime, an opportunity he missed by a hair's breadth," said Kim Hong-gul, his youngest son who currently heads the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, a coalition of about 200 civic groups working on inter-Korean peace.
Ludger Lütkehaus of Die Zeit wrote that the book sometimes borders on kitsch, but "also reminds us of the fact that great literature often emerges when the border to kitsch is avoided only by a hair's breadth".
The church became a witness to a bloody exchange of gunfire. The riddled Baroque door still evokes those moments. The monastery escaped abolition during Joseph II's reforms by a hair's breadth. The number of monks was, however, limited from thirty-six to twelve.
Very soon, they find he is in league with the party. They nearly get caught investigating, and escape by a hair's breadth. Some days later, the Hardys go for a circus hosted by Tariski himself. Things, however, go wrong when Biff Hooper, the Hardys' pal, manages to rattle the audience with a particularly dangerous act.
With the Mark Foley scandal in full swing, pundits re-evaluated the odds of Davis winning against Reynolds. It was widely reported that Reynolds had knowledge of earlier e-mails between Foley and a page, although he was unaware of more explicit instant messages reported by ABC News. Davis led Reynolds in several polls taken during October 2006, but an early November poll showed him trailing 46 to 50. He lost by a "hair's breadth", according to The Washington Post.
The yearbook spoke of Reese's play, "Time after time Gil Reece caught punts, and shifting from side to side in a most elusive fashion, would run almost through the Michigan team, by a hair's breadth, escaping each hand outstretched to seize him. He resembled old Lewis Hardage, who taught him that shifty trick." Scotty Neill's punting matching that of Kipke, with an average of 42 yards per punt, was also of note. The defense of Tex Bradford and Tot McCullough received praise.
Downham, "Chronology." pp. 34–41 (where she takes issue with earlier views since Beaven, who rejected the chronology of the D-text of the Chronicle in favour of less reliable sources such as Historia regum). However, in 943, when Amlaíb had marched on to Leicester, one of the Boroughs, he and Wulfstan were besieged by Edmund and managed to escape only by a hair's breadth. Peace negotiations followed later that year to the effect that Edmund accepted Amlaíb as an ally and as two northern sources add, ceded to him Northumbria as far south as Watling Street.
In 1997, the Section was once again awarded a national trophy which was the Yves du Manoir challenge, while reaching the quarter-finals of the French championship, again both times against the same team from Bourgoin. In 1998, it reached the semi- finals of the H-Cup, beaten only by the future winner of the competition (the English Bath). In 2000, the Section won the European Shield against Castres by 34-21 in Toulouse. The same season, Pau eliminates Montferrand in the quarter- final of the French championship but misses the final by a hair's breadth against Colomiers in the semi-final.
He compared it to a man striking a hammer on an anvil, raising it by day and bringing it down immediately after nightfall. (In the second between raising the hammer and bringing it down, night began. Thus, he taught that God finished God's work right at the end of the sixth day, so that in that very moment the Sabbath began.) Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai taught that mortal humans, who do not know exactly what time it is, must add from the profane to the sacred to avoid working in the sacred time; but God knows time precisely, can enter the Sabbath by a hair's breadth. Genibah and the Rabbis discussed .
Many teachings of Ben Azzai's, with and without Biblical foundation, have been preserved. Two of these were included in Pirkei Avot.Avot 4:2,3 After a saying of Ben Azzai, at the beginning of the third chapter of Derekh Eretz Rabbah, this little book (which began originally with that chapter) is called "Perek Ben Azzai".Rashi to Berakhot 22a; Tosafot to Eruvin 53b In a teaching that recalls a fundamental thought of Akiva, Ben Azzai gives the characteristic features of a kind of deterministic view of the world: "By your name they shall call you, at the place where you belong they shall see you, what is yours they shall give to you; no man touches that which is destined for his neighbor; and no government infringes even by a hair's breadth upon the time marked for another government".

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