Sentence examples for back on the cusp from inspiring English sources

Raynald Denoueix, a Frenchman, was the manager that last took Sociedad to that particular promised land, and it is another French coach, Phillipe Montanier, who has them back on the cusp of European competition.

Last April, for example, we should have continued our offensive to shatter the insurgency in Fallujah and elsewhere instead of pulling back on the cusp of victory.

Back then, we were on the cusp of learning how to use Twitter as an organizing tool in protest.

Last week Mr. Carreño was back in his hometown, on the cusp of retiring from the company, signing autographs and enchanting the Cuban audience with a sexy, Latin-infused solo in Jerome Robbins's "Fancy Free".

But the setting for his spies' intrigues — the leafy boulevards, grand ballrooms, romantic cafes, lively salons and sinister back streets of a city on the cusp of catastrophe — is vividly rendered.

Somewhere in between openings in London and New York last year, the "power couple" discovered this laid-back, pastoral corner of Somerset, on the cusp of Dorset and Wiltshire.

"The wind is at our backs, and we are now on the cusp of achieving full legal equality for LGBT Americans," he said.

He writes laid-back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction, so that one female aquatic is "an ingénue with a bite that could sever an arm".

Translated to laymen's terms, this means that while we're at the back end of winter we're also teetering on the cusp of early spring, where temperatures hopefully begin to rise.

Strauss infringed at a central ruck moments later, allowing O'Gara to boot the visitors back to within a converted score on the cusp of half-time.

Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, has pushed back on claims that he is on the cusp of leaving the $420 billion Chinese e-commerce firm.