Sentence examples for the brink for from inspiring English sources

Turkey's relations with Russia have been on the brink for months.

The Saints have seemed like a team on the brink for a few seasons, but injuries undermined them last season.

"This simple fact would help prevent the escalation in weapons transfers which has now pushed Syria to the brink for the last year".

The state has been operating at the brink for years, notes Ingrid Reed of the Engleton Institute for Politics at Rutgers University.

"The intent is to pull them back from the brink for the foreseeable future and turn them over to normal management agencies.

Perhaps this, more than any other reason, may explain why English football has teetered on the brink for the past 10 years.

Kasey Kahne entered last year's race at Richmond on the brink of qualifying for the Chase for the Nextel Cup.

Thank you for dragging our economy back from the brink of catastrophe, for believing in climate change like a normal person, for legalising gay marriage.

The fundraising, on which shareholders will vote next week, was a final hurdle for a company that has teetered on the brink of administration for much of the past year.

Members profess shock, comma, shock at bonuses for execs who allegedly brought AIG to the brink of what for any other company would have been certain bankruptcy, and how this violates the meritocracy of the "free" market (myth #2).

From the numerology-searching mathematician in Pi to Natalie Portman's ballerina striving for perfection in Black Swan, they all teeter on the brink of madness for what they believe in.