Sentence examples for verge of declaring from inspiring English sources

Batumi was the capital of the semiautonomous Adjara region, which was itself on the verge of declaring independence.

And in Oslo, the city that was on the verge of declaring a state of emergency after Justin's last visit, his forthcoming concert dates have forced schools to shift their exam timetables to avoid defeat in the scheduling clash.

Even as they are focused on the Middle East peace effort, some administration officials have clearly concluded that North Korea may be on the verge of declaring itself a nuclear state, and that there is not much they can do to stop it.

It all had the ring of a chap on the verge of declaring the controls a brilliant success, and then lifting them.

This is all fun for the pundits, who (pre-debate) were on the verge of declaring the race all but over (and, hence, boring), but we hasten to remind everyone that this is not how we elect presidents.

At the time when Italy was on the verge of declaring an armistice with the Allies, Himmler declared to Felix Kersten that Northern Italy, along with the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, was "bound to eventually be included in Greater Germany anyway".

A third review was on the verge of formally declaring Dr. Ganic innocent and clearing his name.

A guardian angel comes to George Bailey, who is on the verge of being declared bankrupt and is pondering killing himself, to show him how awful the world would be without him.

Some animals on the verge of being declared endangered (and he knows this).

"We were virtually on the verge of being declared polio-free, if it hadn't been for the outbreak of the two cases," said UNICEF Representative in Ethiopia Bjorn Ljungqvist.

Despondent and on the verge of suicide, he declares that the world would have been better if he had never lived.