Other countries with similar fiscal holes, such as Portugal, Spain, Ireland and even Italy, teetered.
The eurozone teetered on another brink, while the southern hemisphere powered ahead.
After the biggest popular protests in Prague since the velvet revolution brought down communism, the rightwing government of Petr Necas, close allies of David Cameron, teetered on the brink, because of unpopular spending cuts as well as sleaze.
No liberal can justify a system in which huge banks' balance-sheets teetered on tiny amounts of capital.
When that funding disappeared, many banks teetered on the verge of collapse, prompting the authorities in the countries concerned to put a cap on the use of such funding.
She teetered on the brink of conversion to Catholicism but could never quite make the jump.
So he took 300 soldiers deep into the heartland of North Kivu province, where he keeps his farm and his beloved cattle, and where many of the locals are fellow Tutsis.Ever since then eastern Congo, one of the deadliest places on earth during the past two decades, has teetered on the brink of disaster.
The deal, at the time the biggest banking takeover in history, was concluded not only at an inflated price after a hostile bidding process, but just as the world economy teetered on the edge of the great recession.Yet just how much of a leap of faith was involved in the bid is only now becoming clear thanks to an exhaustive report by the Financial Services Authority FSAA) published today.
In the 17 years Kim Jong Il ruled since the death of Kim Il Sung, North Korea teetered on the brink of collapse.
But for more than 48 hours after he died, Malawi teetered on the brink of a coup as members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) plotted to prevent Mrs Banda, the vice-president, from taking over and to thrust the late president's elder brother, Peter, into power in her stead.Despite his 78 years, Mr Mutharika had appeared in good health.
Even though one has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy and the other has emerged only last month, these airlines between them carry over 80% of the airport's passengers.Lying almost entirely within Cook county, O'Hare is responsible for more jobs in Illinois than any other entity.
