Sentence examples for brink of wasting from inspiring English sources

We're on the brink of wasting it.

Beware of wasting the blade.

With England on the brink Swann barely wasted a ball, teasing and testing even Jayawardene, who has generally had the measure of him.

Marijuana pulled me back from the brink when AIDS-related wasting endangered my life and conventional drugs failed.

I saw myself as a wealthy old man on the brink of death, and felt a visceral pain for having wasted my life on the greedy accumulation of wealth at the expense of others.

The difference between before and after New Labour is that time has been wasted and the world is nearer the brink of environmental disaster.

Experts say the waste management industry is on the brink of a cleaner, safer incinerator that will produce energy without creating tons of toxic residue.

Just as its wasted regional passenger-jet business brought it to the brink of bankruptcy in the early 1990s, so its contracts with Britain's Ministry of Defence have brought it little but grief during the past four years.

The country's nuclear waste reprocessing industry is also on the brink of being shut because of safety concerns.

Though we were just a forty-minute drive from the city, everywhere you looked there were old factories, low piles of rubble, industrial-waste dumps, half-deserted farm villages on the brink of being bulldozed and "developed".

This extreme climate scenario, combined with a series of management flaws, political negligence and a culture of waste and pollution, is bringing the largest metropolitan region of Brazil to the brink of collapse.