Sentence examples for edge of conflict from inspiring English sources

By keeping the peninsula on the edge of conflict, Pyongyang put the onus on South Korea and the United States to pull things back.

A collapse of talks would lead to a slide back to the edge of conflict between Iran and Israel; the latter has vowed to launch military strikes rather than allow the former to build a bomb.

"It may sound arcane," writes Bill Hayton, author of "South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia", published earlier this year, "but the legal debate over what one country's military vessels can do in another country's [EEZ] has already brought the United States and China to the edge of conflict.

There, ten trained terrorists armed with the most ordinary of weapons and off-the-shelf high-tech equipment of a sort that could be bought in any mall managed to bring two nuclear-armed superpowers to the edge of conflict.

Although this agreement put an end to the physical warfare, the militarization of the border, war games, skirmishes, infiltrations, and defections have continued to divide Korean families and keep the peninsula on the edge of conflict.

Looking at the generations below me, I realise the edges of conflict may not be so sharp for them: arranged marriage has morphed into assisted marriage.

The decision by President Salva Kiir, who led the new nation into independence in 2011, to sack his deputy, Riek Machar, in July provoked a political and military rift which today leaves South Sudan teetering on the edge of serious conflict.

It is, most simply but also most elusively, a sweet and thorny tale of father-daughter bonding with a finely honed edge of generational conflict, propelled by two extraordinarily natural, utterly fearless performances.

The president has publicly used that term twice in the last two months to describe a situation where India and neighboring Pakistan have nuclear weapons and are also at the edge of a conflict in Kashmir.

The year is 2053 and the world's population is suffering the onslaught of global warming: drought and famine push millions towards Europe; nations teeter on the edge of nuclear conflict; and Britain is rapidly failing, with the haves barricaded in gated communities and the have-nots at the mercy of criminal gangs.

Throughout the war, the British were unable to project military power into the Illinois Country, which was on the remote western edge of the conflict.