Its main meeting hall still looks more like a corporate board room than the gathering place for decisions the world hangs on.

God knows there are writers who feel that the whole world hangs on what they say.

He could not just walk into that amount of agony, though his world hung in the balance.

Even after Richard knew the sun was up, the world still hung in half-light between night and day, a ghost of morning.

The seventh world hung in space like a blue and white jewel.

Outside, the world hung gray, pouring with rain beneath a sky the color of lead.

Let the world and the future go hang as long as his daughter survived.

The station's owners well realize this, and soon the world is hanging on every development.

They are like young women to whom all trivia makes the world hang in the balance.