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But, of course, high wire acts lose some of their effectiveness if the star falls on his head in the ring.
Now that all the high wire acts of two decades have failed, they could, with great advantage, go back to basics, to coin a phrase.
There are falconers, a team of high-wire motorcycling experts, and fire-eating jousters.
He is performing a high-wire act, and it is in the national interest that he does not fall off.
High-wire negotiations only lead to mistrust.
However, the model can predict where the transition between high wire and low wire number arrays might occur.
A high wire fence, with tin sheets along its strands, enclosed the entire western exposure of the camp.
The high wire one-stem training system was applied.
Life skills, as applied to performance on the high wire, are taken up through bipolar constructs from clear-minded to muddleheaded.
The compensatory model findings just summarized suggest that across the broader achievement and affiliation developmental tasks, maintaining a salutary wellbeing trajectory is somewhat of a "high wire" act.
Of course, individuals in these two trajectory groups are likely to have, at least initially, more personal and contextual resources to successfully take on the high wire act.
It was designed as a safety net, but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers.
Up to last year, fishmeal was always regarded as the safety net for fishermen, on the high wire of the more lucrative markets.
It is a high wire act because so many things are at stake.
It is a safety net and not a high wire.