Sentence examples for brink to be from inspiring English sources

Darling intends the book, Back from the Brink, to be a document of his role grappling with the financial crisis in 2008.

It seems almost biblically prophetic, a vision of the city on the brink, soon to be engulfed by the anarchic shadows of modernity.

What brought Brink to Newcastle was the idea that knowledge could be for the north-east what coal once was.

ABC News caught up with the nation's top banking CEOs after they left Congress's financial hearings and the contrite attitude they displayed to Congress regarding their role in bringing the U.S. economy to the brink was nowhere to be seen when reporter Jonathan Karl asked them about extravagant bonuses.

This seems to be Brink's clumsy attempt to complicate the master-slave relationship and suggest that the fault lines of domination and attraction can shift.

These provocations, combined with a number of "serious command-and-control snafus," brought us closer to the brink than we needed to be.

As CIT's new chairman and chief executive, he will try to rebuild a company whose bet on increasingly risky businesses led it to the brink of dissolution, only to be saved at the last minute by its creditors.

The news on Tuesday that our country has led a decisive international action to peacefully prevent the emergence of another nuclear-armed nation – after decades of teetering on the brink of war – is to be welcomed.

In fact, they can be brought to the very brink of destruction, only to be resuscitated and restored to their former glory by a few drops of blood.

"We were teetering on the brink here and it had to be stopped, which meant Mandela had to be stopped.

Stop at the Horseshoe brink and wait your turn to be doused at the rail by spray from thousands of tons of water plunging down every second.