Sentence examples for began teetering from inspiring English sources

His father ordered him not to train, but in a display of youthful contrariness he began teetering along the wire.

Bank stocks began teetering after Lehman Brothers collapsed and the government rescued A.I.G., and fear gripped the financial industry around the world.

Coel said the production company staff then began "teetering back and forth between the line of knowing what normal human empathy is and not knowing what empathy is at all".

Since the market began teetering in April, Schering-Plough's price/earnings ratio has soared 38%, to 36; Eli Lilly's multiple, now at 35, is up 30%; Merck's has jumped 31%, to 34.

There may be two weeks before models start teetering down the runway for London Fashion Week, but the spurious fashion-food link-ups have begun in earnest.

But Qaddafi's regime began to teeter, and during the civil war "no one was on our side," Awad says.

But just before reaching the landing area, Watt began to teeter slightly and he went down as he hit the slope at the 410‐foot mark.

I began to teeter, and when I stopped at a red light, I felt like a fat man on a tightrope.

But confidence continued to ebb, the banks began to teeter and the men who run them the "oligarchs" who paid for Mr Yeltsin's re-election in 1996 and have gobbled up quantities of privatised assets began to squeal.

When A.I.G. began to teeter in the last few days, it became clear that if it defaulted on its commitments under the swaps, it could set off a devastating chain reaction through the financial system.

When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are government-chartered but investor-owned, began to teeter last week, the administration quietly went to work on possible government action.