Sentence examples for projects on the edge of from inspiring English sources

Petroski's message isn't that these projects were engineering follies, but rather that occasional defeats are inevitable when one is dealing with projects "on the edge of possibility".

"France's colonial legacy is still very strong, and successive governments have sadly made sure that immigrant communities have been largely kept in housing projects on the edge of major cities".

Teetering-on-the-edge-of-solidification old. .

You can see Britain's only bustards for yourself at the Great Bustard project on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

The movement's councillors there campaigned on a promise to try to close down an unpopular incinerator project on the edge of town.

This project borders on the edge of crackpot".

His subtle and pragmatic style was seen in the way he handled a landmark power project teetering on the edge of failure in 2002, when he was governor of Fujian, a coastal province.

The Forest Service says that even though the project is on the edge of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness and partly in the Kootenai National Forest, it is allowable under the Mining Law of 1872, which permits companies to stake claims to publicly owned minerals for small processing fees.

Their thin dendritic branches project through the edge of the α′2 and α′3 compartments.

"They arrived here, all of them," recalls Dijana Sarzinski, mortuary manager at the Krajina Identification Project (KIP) facility on the edge of Sanski Most.

Page's brain implants remain some way further off, though both Google founders have lately been wearing "Google Glass" prototypes, headbands that project a permanent screen on the edge of your field of vision, with apps – cameras, search, whatever – answerable to voice-activated command.