Sentence examples for hovering on the brink from inspiring English sources

As one enthusiast opined: "…after a 100 years of empirical research, immunology is hovering on the brink of reinventing itself as a quantitative, genome-based science….whether or not the multitude of practitioners of immunology wish to acknowledge it" (Flower 2007, p. 2).

Macmillan's initiative is a telling commentary on an industry hovering on the brink of crisis.

These are not just couples meeting for a quick shag; these are couples hovering on the brink of perdition.

It is dominated by the designs of Wilhelm Wagenfeld -- plain, clear and hovering on the brink of invisibility.

Instead of chugging along in reasonable health, the United States had been hovering on the brink of a double-dip recession.

Two and a half years ago, Nassau County, hovering on the brink of bankruptcy, began implementing changes to address rampant corruption in local government.

She seems to hover on the brink of insanity, struggling between two states of mind.

Put simply, she wished to become a Christian, but Stanford still hovered on the brink of conversion.

But each time I hovered on the brink, I found myself shrugging and saying, Let it go.

When they hovered on the brink of war last year, China intervened diplomatically along with other powers.Only in Africa's largest economies has China become less popular.

The squabbling over Gogol's roots comes as Russia and Ukraine hover on the brink of yet another dispute over transport of gas to European consumers.