Sentence examples for brink before from inspiring English sources

We've come back from this brink before.

He has been to the brink before but that was strictly to do with his batting.

Washington's feuding politicians walked up to the brink before resolving not to jump off the so-called fiscal cliff.

The full effects remain unknown because no Congress has ever allowed the government to go over the brink before.

Sometimes it seems that France have to be teetering on the brink before they give their best.

And although Rome does have the European Central Bank as a backstop, it may have to get to the brink before using it.

Now the data is in and the city's mayor and many of its leaders are jubilantly pointing to figures that seem to indicate that the city is back from the brink, richer than before, and are leading the celebrations of what they describe as a renaissance.

None were faced with Baltimore's set of circumstances last year, a season on the brink well before it began because of the Lewis saga and his court drama over the killing of two men that took place on the night of the previous Super Bowl in Atlanta.

Relations between the schools had always been close; the amalgamation had been planned for some time, and a number of new laboratories and classrooms had already been under construction on the North Brink site before the two schools merged.

Japanese banks have been on the brink of disaster before.

The Sudanese government and South Sudan's army have stepped back from the brink many times before.