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

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

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

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

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

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

Lives now hung in the balance because they didn't know the truth.

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

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

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