Sentence examples for brink- from inspiring English sources

To move Europe away from the brink, voters and politicians on all sides need to stop asking themselves what's fair and start asking themselves what's possible.

Diagnosing what has gone wrong in the past few years and how we've ended up on the brink of another crisis is the easy bit.

Busby is on the brink of 60, a Scot whose considered, relentlessly specific use of words rides easily on wayward grammar.

"No new hen harriers this season means that the hen harrier is on the brink of extinction in England," said RSPB spokesman Graham Madge.

While the New Zealand health system does not face as many financial challenges as some health systems in the northern hemisphere, it is on the brink of a demographically driven event that will do more indirect damage than the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes.

"No other British bird has come so close to the brink of extinction before defying all the odds to flourish in our modern landscape.

The economy is on the brink of default and loyalties are torn between Europe and Russia.

It was led by efforts in New York, which hit the limits of a diminishing tax base and vanishing bank loans in 1975 and was pushed to the brink of municipal bankruptcy.

Macmillan's initiative is a telling commentary on an industry hovering on the brink of crisis.

Fashion chain AllSaints is on the brink of agreeing a last-minute rescue plan that should save the retailer from collapse.

Deals are always done five or three or one minute before midnight, it's not unusual that they should go right to the brink".