Sentence examples for verge of disaster from inspiring English sources

"We try to maintain right on the verge of disaster, just tipping over.

When the accidental loss of $8,000 leaves George on the verge of disaster, he contemplates killing himself.

Republicans attacked the automakers for failing to fix their business models until they were on the verge of disaster.

The very fact that Clinton was teetering on the verge of disaster seemed to cause the American public to rally around him.

All along, my assumption has been that the European pols would fiddle and prevaricate until the very verge of disaster and then take the painful steps necessary to prevent the euro system from imploding.

With Father Furlong, the trait was obvious – impossibly bouncy talkativeness, a Tigger in holy orders – but the setting was also key; always claustrophobic, always teetering on the verge of disaster, always asking the question, what else would you do but sing?

This is on the verge of a disaster.

The Proteas were teetering on the verge of another disaster when Amla departed but both Elgar and du Plessis have been solid since.

The ocean was always too cold and sometimes dirty with foam or seaweed and seemed on the verge of ecological disaster.

According to Amnesty International and the UN, eastern Ukraine is on the verge of humanitarian disaster.

According to Petrillo's Ghost Towns of North Mountain: Ricketts, Mountain Springs, Stull: "Ricketts was on the verge of financial disaster for two decades until the Lehigh Valley Railroad was constructed through his lands".