Mr. Gerstein was always ready with a slight acceleration, a hairsbreadth rubato or a sudden, subtle shift of tone to keep you on your toes. |
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This results in large load increases for very small deformations, often less than a hairsbreadth. |
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It's a book within a hairsbreadth of the landing strip, and its excitement comes from watching one of the greatest careers in modern letters make its final, unsettled preparations to touch down. |
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In 1985, when its sustainability is still unclear and Newhouse comes within a hairsbreadth of pulling the plug, she scores a photo shoot with the Reagans, in the White House. |
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Unfortunately we were not able to reach a compromise, but we were only a hairsbreadth away from one, so I am pleased that on Wednesday morning we shall be voting on that same compromise and I am assuming we shall achieve it. |
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We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles. |
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In the process of attempting to reunify Korea, the Northern-based army unleashed a powerful social revolution in the South and came within a hairsbreadth of driving the U. S. imperialist army off the peninsula. |
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She had no doctor and no midwife, and after four days in labor, she was a hairsbreadth from becoming one more Mozambican woman to die in childbirth. |
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In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying. |
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