Sentence examples for on the verge of extending from inspiring English sources

Now the state is on the verge of extending similar protections to prime borrowers, too.

Mr. Romney was on the verge of extending his argument when Mr. Johnson shouted out: "That's not true, governor.

ROBERT CHECCHIO Dunellen, N.J., April 11 , 2013To the Editor: The Senate may be on the verge of extending background checks, but that alone may not be enough.

While Pujols is on the verge of extending his 10-season streak of 30 home runs and 100 R.B.I., Alex Rodriguez has a little farther to go to extend his own 13-season streak of the same numbers.

Now that the Senate has caught up with the House by passing a sweeping health care bill, lawmakers are on the verge of extending coverage to the tens of millions of Americans who have no health insurance.

A ban on the clearing of tropical forests in Indonesia is on the verge of being extended in a historic deal that could protect some of the world's most threatened habitats.

Among some global warming skeptics, there is speculation that the Sun may be on the verge of falling into an extended slumber similar to the so-called Maunder Minimum, several sunspot-scarce decades during the 17th and 18th centuries that coincided with an extended chilly period.

Now, the industry is on the verge of launching a solution that extends those monitoring capabilities to railcars.

The President is on the verge of fulfilling his campaign pledge to extend health-care coverage to many of the uninsured.

That is preposterous from certain perspectives and the outcome might have been different had a linesman, with a bad offside decision, not denied Paul Scholes a second goal to extend the lead on the verge of half-time.

New photos of Pluto released by Nasa reveal flows of nitrogen ice filling up craters, an atmosphere that could be on the verge of collapse, and a mysterious reddish haze extending 100 miles above the surface.