coin-flip

Modern rituals are everywhere, from the solemn coin-flip to start an NFL game to the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a building to the smashing of a champagne bottle on a new ship.

The Crowd Rose As One | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

It's a nice program, but I would never leave my decisions up to a mere coin-flip app.

Let Simon Decide Makes Tough Decisions Easy | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Richards: Since I won the Kanye West commemorative coin-flip (both sides are heads!), I'll pick first.

The Click Track 2010 Howard Homecoming Draft! Click Track 2010

So, if I must pick a winner in a coin-flip of a game, I do so expecting that I am just as likely to be right as I am to be wrong, and knowing that I might well change my mind just before kickoff.

Flip a coin Michael Kun 2011

Second, the Constitution is ambiguous on how to divide this authority, and the Supreme Court, in coin-flip decisions, has sided with Congress.

Congress's Broken Windows Daniel Henninger 2011

It never should have been so close that the SCOTUS ended up adjudicating the coin-flip.

Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll 2010

There are others like Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick J. Murphy, who pulled off an upset in his suburban Philadelphia 8th District in 2006, and is now in a coin-flip race with Mike Fitzpatrick, the Republican he ousted four years ago.

Republicans on the offensive as Tuesday nears; House could fall, Senate unlikely Dan Balz 2010

With a run-off expected in Georgia, a coin-flip in Alaska, and a recount in the razor-thin Minnesota race, Democrats actually have an outside chance to run the table and get to 60 — though that would basically force us to let Lieberman off the hook …

V-Oregon « Gerry Canavan 2008

In other words, our elected leaders are giving us -- at best -- a coin-flip chance of avoiding catastrophe.

Franny Armstrong: The Age of Stupid Gives a Coin-Flip Chance of Avoiding Climate Catastrophe 2009

It's a nice program, but I would never leave my decisions up to a mere coin-flip app.

Let Simon Decide Makes Tough Decisions Easy | Lifehacker Australia 2009