On June 26 the House passed the 1, 300-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by a hair's margin (219 to 212).
My guess is that this is the movie that takes home the award for Best Picture and Best Director, winning by a hair-thin margin.
The Welsh Assembly was set up only after a referendum approved it by a hair's-breadth, and that was after years of devolution campaigning by Labour.
The victorious David hacks off Goliath's head, while Absalom tucked away behind a prayer-stool hangs by his hair from a tree as a grim prophecy of Christ's crucifixion.
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Bishop was forty-five, with a long, pale face framed by dark hair that she wore in a pageboy, her bangs slashed just above her small blue eyes.
On another occasion, he dragged the mother of four out of a house by her hair.
The intruder dragged her painfully by the hair to a chair in front of the vanity and sat her down.
If not, well, legend has it that the sword is held up by only a single horse hair...
He sits at a long table on the terrace overlooking his family vineyard, the fluffy curlicues of his white hair buffeted by a strong breeze.
During the campaign debates, while the other candidates traded accusations, she presented a squeaky clean image, reinforced by her appearance - her hair done up in a neat chignon, her clothes elegant but simple.
In Oxford, Ohio, Miami University student Mike Chase celebrated by shaving a friend's hair into the letters "USA" with two red stars.
Muralitharan's action has been the source of controversy since he was no-balled for throwing by umpire Darrell Hair in a Test match at Melbourne in December 1995.
We know that the U.S. has been trending away from freedom for the past few years, that Canada is now the freest nation in the North American region, and that we have been surpassed in freedom by Belgium and are just a hair ahead of Bahrain.
Nor did Bebe realize that the old man in bombachas with a beard, long tangled hair, and a bare chest tanned by the sun was his father.
The neutrons are shot between two parallel plates, one above another and separated by about 25 micrometres - half a hair's width.
The artist sketched the queen, by then aged 37, as she passed by his window in a tumbrel, hair cut short and hands tied behind her back, ready for the guillotine.
Warwick was seventy-six years old, tall, stooped, and frumpy-looking, with a well-worn tweed jacket, liver spots dotting his skin, wispy gray hair by all appearances, a doddering, midcentury academic.
He added, however, that he rarely feels stress at all, an assertion supported by his appearance: at the age of fifty-five, he has a lightly lined face and chestnut hair that is barely marked by gray.
Kilroy had a stunted appearance, accentuated by oiled black hair sleekly brushed straight back, making the top of his head seem flat.
At the meetings this weekend European leaders will discuss how to reduce Greek debt by forcing investors to take further losses (a hair-cut).
At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our math.
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Sometimes an epidermoid cyst has a central opening the remnant of a hair follicle from which the cyst originally formed that's plugged by a tiny blackhead.
He projected a stately demeanor helped by his profusion of gray hair -- which grew at an early age -- and an equally steely facial expression.
May 1999 was near the peak and the market ground down to just a hair above the May 1997 level by Sept. 2002 and ultimately breached the May 1997 level in early 2009.
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Ordered to stop him, a police officer grabbed Mr. Chaudhry by the hair and he was roughed up on the streets of Islamabad, in images that incensed judges and lawyers and galvanized the public.
Phil Alexander, a computer technician, lets his hair down by writing songs and attending open-mike events.
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The basis for CFRP construction is provided by fine carbon fibres, ten times thinner than a human hair.
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Hilary Swank, as Amelia Earhart, has a big, toothy smile, high cheekbones, and short, irregular hair that seems to have been chopped by a butcher knife.
In fact, Bernerd was so far ahead of the curve on this one that she's probably dying her hair an allover blonde by now to start a new trend.
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