Given l Unione s razor thin majority in the upper house, the most likely outcome is paralysis.

Another possibility is to turn razor thin majorities into one sided governments that remain centrist in policy.

The status quo allows banks instead to leverage taxpayer assistance by holding razor thin equity margins, relying on debt to a far greater extent than typical large non financial firms do.

For a while, everybody played politely along but the tricky double think involved in this was exposed when the younger brother, Ed, won the leadership, by a razor thin margin, in a last minute upset.

The sympathy this secured gave the President his razor thin margin of victory with just 50.1 of the votes over Lien Chan, the candidate of the Kuomintang Party and People's First Party (KMT PFP) coalition.

The last time that Israeli elections were so obviously affected by violence was in 1996, when polling results shifted wildly in the run up to the vote, finally allowing Netanyahu a razor thin win over acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

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Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Stay thin.

Stay thin.

Stay thin.

What does this do to the legitimacy of governments, and of political institutions in general? As long as winners with razor thin majorities, once in office, steer a middle course, they are more likely to remain acceptable to an electorate that is more volatile than divided.

Col. Jacob Schick (September 16, 1877 July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company.

I'm not thin.

And what you should know about African penguins is that they have razor sharp beaks.

Yes, they are very large in one dimension in the other dimension they are paper thin. Very, very thin.

My bicycle disappeared into thin air.

But that excuse has worn thin.

The Gillette Company was founded by King C. Gillette in 1901 as a safety razor manufacturer.

It s a thin film, two dimensional existence.

There was thin ice on the lake.

Zeiform bodies are usually thin and deep.

IMF advice should not be spread too thin.

That's because the bubble vanished into thin air.

Actually, we will take a second to prove this could be fake that the blades are indeed razor sharp.

Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.

According to the US Justice Department, Razor 1911 is the oldest software cracking group that is still active on the internet.

Would you rather be fat and ugly or thin and sexy?

Most of the seemingly intractable problems would vanish into thin air.

The patience even of free traders will wear thin in 2010.

Indeed, the evidence that was presented publicly was thin and exaggerated.

She looks thin. When the starting gun fires, Omar lags behind.

We have been extremely patient, but that patience is wearing thin.

In a deeply unstable world, these are paper thin cushions against losses.

The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

Although I grew up around wheat fields, my knowledge of farming is thin.

Slumping orders devastated low end producers, which barely survived on wafer thin margins.

Like other insects, ants perceive smells with their long, thin, and mobile antennae.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

But a thin line separates orderly adjustment to changed conditions from market over reaction.

Thin disk lasers have been shown to produce beams of up to one kilowatt.

The shafts of the bones are often thin (gracile) and become thinner during growth.

While the IFE undoubtedly committed several serious public relations mistakes during last year s election, it remains one of Mexico s most respected institutions, with credibility ratings that are regularly double or triple those of Congress and the three political parties. The IFE shepherded Mexico through several crisis in 2006, when the PRD s presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, refused to accept his razor thin margin of defeat and took his battle to the streets.

Hatred doesn't just appear out of thin air, it usually starts from envy or fear.

Such leaders are thin on the ground, and the electoral system is partially to blame.