Sentence examples for edges of war from inspiring English sources

A western ally perched on the edges of war, and now a major transit point for those fleeing conflict and strife.

"For Netanyahu, extending for several more rounds this hysterical walking-up-to-the-edge-of-war was going to be difficult," said Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London.

A prolonged international crisis followed, during which Europe appeared to teeter on the edge of war.

India and Pakistan, nuclear powers prone to brinksmanship, are at the edge of war.

With South Asia teetering on the edge of war, President Bush has imposed on Pakistan the burden of dragging it back into balance.

Such ideological opposites might be expected to focus on historical rivalries between their countries, which were at the edge of war as recently as the late 1980s.

It is hard to do that when fear and anger are in the air, and the country seems on the edge of war.

The death toll was reduced by a government operation that saw 800,000 people evacuated before the storm hit the island.War avertedRwanda and Uganda seemed on the edge of war.

Eero Saarinen's swooping airline terminals in New York and Washington celebrated the romance of world travel, but the darker side of living on the edge of war was suggested by the naming of the Washington airport after John Foster Dulles, the master of brinkmanship.

"Berlin is a city in the 20's that is afraid of riots and terror and on the edge of war that is used to being the capital of the world.

"For the Jeromes of the '30s, like many Americans today, there was financial loss and a world on the edge of war, and these things were dangerous and can cause anger in people.