The vote was a relief for Tony Blair and Labour's NEC, who expected a knife-edge result.
The risk of contagion is ever-present: Spain is in worse shape than before, Italy is on a knife-edge.
Until the 1997 general election, this seat was on a knife-edge between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
In his frenzied business, where customer loyalty can turn on a knife-edge, you've got to keep selling, selling, selling.
He added that they deserve to be protected "to remind present and future generations of this knife-edge moment in history".
Yet, as an ugly and at times violent election season nears its end, the outcome is now on a knife-edge.
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Recent Zambian elections teetered on a knife-edge when the opposition won there, before President Rupiah Banda gracefully accepted defeat rather than cry foul.
Opinion polls had suggested the election was poised on a knife-edge.
The closest comparison may be Sacha Baron Cohen's knife-edge satirical rubes.
With the match on a knife-edge, Evans had a late attempt at a drop-goal to put Quins into the semi-finals, but his effort was wide of the posts.
With the match on a knife-edge, Evans had a late attempt at a drop-goal to put Quins into the semi-finals - but his effort was wide of the posts.
Rovers got back into the match when Cockayne profited from a Paul Cooke up-and-under to crash over and as conditions deteriorated the match remained on a knife-edge before Sheriffe ran KR out of town.
But Sharma's dismissal - harshly adjudged lbw to Ben Hilfenhaus (4-57) by umpire Ian Gould to a ball that would have missed leg stump - left the match on a knife-edge with India on 205-9.
Parra's long-range 50-metre shot after 65 minutes hitting the post was a brief relief as Jauzion broke through moments later to set up a drop-goal attempt Trinh-Duc missed to leave the game on a knife-edge.
She met the great and the good on equal terms, but she knew something of what it meant to be working class, and of how those families stood on a knife-edge between survival and precipitation into the street and the workhouse.
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