Sentence examples for the brink of execution from inspiring English sources

Before Wednesday, Mr. Davis had walked to the brink of execution three times.

Pope John Paul II made his opposition to capital punishment concrete when he visited St . Louisin January 1999 and successfully begged Gov. Mel Carnahan of Missouri to commute the sentence of a man on the brink of execution.

Edward II's close relationship to Gaveston had been a source of conflict at court, and Gaveston's execution by a group of rebellious barons in 1312 had brought the country to the brink of civil war.

The brink of what?

"They're on the brink of disaster.

Chicago is on the brink of elimination.

They stand on the brink of life.

"Standing at the brink of history?

Europe is on the brink of recession.

We are on the brink of catastrophe".

G rale was "on the brink of disaster".