Sentence examples for edge of decisions from inspiring English sources

After 15 months of fighting and horrors, indignation and cowardice, the conflict is at the edge of decisions involving direct engagement by the West, more embarrassed shrugs, a greater Middle East role for Russia, or its shameful consignment to the United Nations' long-term parking lot.

Both strike a resentful chord in an area already grumpy about living on the edge of decision making, whether that means a remoteness from London or the age-old fissure between Yorkshire and Lancashire which meet here.

Software company SAS is another notable player in pushing the edges of decision science.

"Sometimes reputation goes before you, but I think they had the edge of the decisions today".

This picture is a function of industry presence in a certain country, of the expertise at the national regulatory authority, but also of critical issues at the edge of regulatory decision making.

The Harlequins flanker cuts a phlegmatic figure on the pitch most of the time, and tackles opponents all day long, but there have been a number of occasions (for club and country) when he has looked a little perplexed in those knife-edge moments of decision-making.

He has tried to soften the edges of conservative decisions by, for example, sidestepping in his critique last week of the University of Michigan's affirmative action program the compelling question of whether race should remain a consideration in college admissions.

And so Mexico teeters on the edge of an enormous decision -- teeters on the brink of achieving, through peaceful and legal means, a democratic transition of power in the world's largest Spanish-speaking country.

"This is right on the edge of the Santa Fe decision," Mr. Dellinger said, adding that it was not particularly unusual for a lower court to reinstate a ruling that had been set aside by the Supreme Court.

"Do you think I should do medicine?" asked my bright-eyed teenage cousin, poised on the edge of one of the biggest decisions of his life so far.

Jon Landau, who is Mr. Springsteen's manager and who co-produced "Darkness on the Edge of Town," describes another critical decision Mr. Springsteen made in selecting the songs for "Darkness": "The album had no hits.