Sentence examples for edge of a war from inspiring English sources

Sochi is also on the edge of a war zone in the North Caucasus.

We look like we might be on the edge of a war, and we can't look like a bunch of angry politicians.' " In Minnesota, Mr. Coleman ran for the Senate by talking repeatedly about cooperating with the Democrats and "changing the tone" in Washington.

And he said after today's talks, "I was sitting there listening to these two highly articulate, intelligent men on the edge of a war over trivial differences in the midst of a famine" in Ethiopia, "and I thought: This is one of the saddest things I ever saw in international affairs".

Iraq is not on the edge of a civil war — there is a civil war.

After the crisis erupted in December, analysts warned the country was on the edge of a civil war.

TEN years ago, competition between Airbus and Boeing brought America and Europe to the edge of a trade war; but the dispute was resolved and a pact signed in 1992.

Two years ago, China and America teetered on the edge of a trade war over the widespread counterfeiting of music, video and software by CD plants in China.

Cronyism is hardly novel in America; the Clinton administration took us to the edge of a trade war on behalf of Chiquita bananas, a major campaign contributor.

Still, the offer to provide salaries and communications equipment to rebel fighters known as the Free Syrian Army — with the hopes that the money might encourage government soldiers to defect, officials said — is bringing the loose Friends of Syria coalition to the edge of a proxy war against Mr. Assad's government and its international supporters, principally Iran and Russia.

Having detected the U.S. aircraft which deployed Snake flying over Soviet soil, the Soviet Union declares the United States responsible for the nuclear attack, tipping both nations to the edge of a nuclear war.

Yemen is approaching the "edge of a civil war" and could degenerate into an "Iraq-Libya-Syria" scenario, the UN special envoy to the country has warned, as forces loyal to the country's embattled president are reported to have repelled an assault on his southern stronghold.