But if a man's life hangs on his ability to control the public, what other out does he have?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't he too young to think that his life hangs in the balance?

Everybody waited for the answer as if life hung on it.

Now, somehow, three more lives hung on the balance of my next decision.