Sentence examples for verge of executing from inspiring English sources

The difference here is that Butch is consumed by that rage, to the point where, later in the movie, he seems on the verge of executing an aggressive (but not lethal) father in front of the man's own family.

"I am gravely concerned that the State of Ohio may be on the verge of executing an innocent person," Jim Petro, a former Ohio attorney general and a Republican who described himself as a death penalty supporter, wrote in a letter to Mr. Strickland.

Richard Slotkin offers John Ford's classic Western "The Searchers," in which the motives of its obsessed protagonist (John Wayne) become more and more questionable -- until, on the verge of executing the niece (Natalie Wood) whom he has rescued from the Comanches, he briefly becomes the film's racist antagonist.

Last week, we noted that Twitter was on the verge of executing their long-in-the-making Snowflake project.

Just when Riley seemed to be on the verge of fading into professional irrelevance, he executed an unprecedented triple play, touching all the recruiting bases and positioning himself for a climactic act of a six-decade career that could resemble the finale of a summer fireworks show.

It was on the verge of cohering.

It's on the verge of insanity.

Arthur seemed on the verge of resurrection.

You're on the verge of despair.

Worley seemed on the verge of panicking.

They were on the verge of it".