Sentence examples for back on the brink from inspiring English sources

He knows his contract could be extended into eternity and yet one bad year could still place him back on the brink.

Britain back on the brink.

The economy, having only just clawed its way up from recession, is back on the brink.

Britain could be back on the brink of the abyss by mid-April.

Greece, which negotiated a second $165 billion bailout plan with its European neighbors in October, is back on the brink of a financial collapse.

Still, they know that it could take only a few unexpected bills to put them back on the brink of foreclosure.

Witnesses said Mr. Jones floated calmly on his back to the brink of the 173-foot-high Horseshoe Falls before disappearing.

So, back to the brink on the Korean peninsula?The Bush administration would rather entice North Korea into broad-ranging talks: on its missile output, on inspections to ensure it is complying with its end of the reactor agreement, and on confidence-building measures to reduce the threat to South Korea from the North's forces just over the border.

Back to the Brink: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 27 28 , 1989

Some years ago, at the University of Pittsburgh, the athletic director cornered a professor at the faculty club and asked for "a little help" with a running back teetering on the brink of ineligibility.

A couple of years back, dickering on the brink of an autobiography and frustrated by the poverty of collateral information, I hired a pair of detectives, one thin, one fat, both recommended by a rugged London solicitor, and both good eaters.