Sentence examples for verge of challenging from inspiring English sources

And then, on the verge of challenging Greg Norman for all-Australian hairy-chested global golf manliness, he wandered into a small plane's propeller and lost an arm, an eye and nearly the whole job lot.

The major action, however, has been at the FTC, which last year launched a major case against Intel and now seems on the verge of challenging this Google acquisition.

The featured matador that day was billed as an exciting newcomer on the verge of challenging the more prominent members of his profession.

We are now on the verge of the third challenge.

Another few bad auctions, Mr. Peruzzo said, "could shift the debate to, 'The austerity is too strong, we need growth.' "  Already, signs that many of the euro region's 17 countries are on the verge of economic recession has been challenging the wisdom of Germany's austerity prescription.

An announcement from San Francisco that Larry Ellison, the C.E.O. of Oracle Corp. and the owner of the maxiyacht Sayonara, had acquired the assets of Paul Cayard's America One syndicate seemed to strongly indicate that Ellison was on the verge of making an official challenge for the cup in New Zealand in 2003.

A day after a humbling defeat that pushed it to the verge of elimination, Italy's Prada Challenge rebounded to beat America One today and set up a decisive ninth and final race in the challenger finals.

Lower: tumour below 5 cm from the anal verge, the area of rectum and mesorectum below the origin of the levators where the mesorectum tapers sharply, makes both the surgical approach and the interpretation of images challenging.

Surmounting many challenges, I was on the verge of publishing the first collection of stories on a brand new company page dedicated to stories.

Despite such challenges, Gorky biographies are on the verge of becoming an annual event.

He warned that obesity was on the verge of overtaking smoking and drinking as the biggest health challenge facing Britain.