hang in the balance

The results had hung in the balance for more than a week.

My life and reason are the very least things which hang in the balance.

And the lives of other people might hang in the balance.

My career, everything I had worked for, was hanging in the balance.

Not while her daughter's life was hanging in the balance.

Like his entire future hanging in the balance, for example.

The cold war, however, was not performance art, and real lives hung in the balance.

That had been true even when his father's life hung in the balance.

He needed her; his future hung in the balance, not the other way around.

But the question of whether she would ever race again still hung in the balance.

This week, the entire season may hang in the balance.

"I feel like my life is hanging in the balance."

A lot of the club's future hangs in the balance.

Four weeks it hung in the balance, so to speak.

A minute went by while things hung in the balance.

And even these were small compared to the real issues hanging in the balance.

More than he could know hung in the balance for the moment that followed.

And it is not just a game that would be hanging in the balance, but a season.

But the safety of human space hangs in the balance.

Here was a man "whose life hangs in the balance."

There is one great issue currently hanging in the balance.

Had not so much death hung in the balance, the sight would have looked almost pretty.

He felt as if his fate were hanging in the balance.

When power seemed to hang in the balance on Tuesday, we did not act.

But it was a small price to pay when her sister's life hung in the balance.