Sentence examples for close to the borderline from inspiring English sources
Pretty close to the borderline of incivility!
In the 60's, a new generation came up to destroy his world, and in response, he was willing to come pretty close to the borderline of incivility.
Don't make any gestures towards the North Korean soldiers standing guard on the other side, and whatever you do, don't get too close to the borderline.
Describing his confrontations with his bitterest rival at the Chase Manhattan Bank: "If the disagreement was strong enough, we could end up pretty close to the borderline of incivility".
Take a guess before reading on.The office was in Dallas, Texas, which is very close to the borderline of the dialect region known as "Inland South", as you can see on this map.
Yet many of them are still perilously close to the borderline.Slippery slopeMartin Ravallion of the World Bank separates the developing-world middle class (those on $2-13 2-13y) into upper andayower tinto, with $9 a day as the dividing line.
The radius of investigation of wells closer to the borderline will reach the borderline and begin production from the area sooner.
According to Eq. 8, the country that has delayed production can minimize losses for by drilling wells that are closer to the borderline.
When my doctor sat me down to review the results of first bone density test he told me that my numbers were closer to the "borderline" than he was comfortable with, and I needed to take specific actions -- immediately -- if I was going to keep them from going down that slippery slope toward the big "O".
This is evidenced by the large numbers of survey participants who were unable to distinguish the two cases, out of a total of four hypothetical individuals whose height and weight classified them as medically obese, who were closer to the borderline.
