Sentence examples similar to on the threshold of war from inspiring English sources

Moncho is a sensitive, observant boy living in a Galician town in the summer of 1936, when Republican Spain was on the threshold of civil war.

Burundi is feared to be on the threshold of another civil war.

The Vietnam to which John Paul Vann returned in late Marcl 1965 was a nation on the threshold of the most violent war in its history.

The conflict had at this time, according to established definitions, reached the threshold of civil war.

By the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq stood on the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability.

With the White House and Capitol Hill approaching agreement on the language of a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iraq, Congress is on the threshold of a solemn and rare occasion -- a debate over war and peace.

Are we on the brink of war?

Miss V. would stand on the threshold of the d.j.j

There is a cat on the threshold of No. 228.

And we are on the threshold of incredible advances.

It promised an England on the threshold of something wonderful.