They were poised on the historic Silk Road that united people.
But in 2008 stocks of Alaskan pollock shrank by half, leaving what is believed to be the world's largest food fishery poised on the brink of collapse.
Little Swan and Little Bear clambered lightly up and never failed to find the best bushes, and then they would stand gracefully poised on their pretty legs, delicately nibbling at the leaves.
Life on an isolated Pacific island is eternally poised on a knife-edge.
That night, the air strikes continued, as the U.S. military launched more than a hundred Tomahawk missiles, wiping out the armored column poised on Benghazi's outskirts.
The diver poised on the edge of the high board.
With love shall life roll on gloriously from year to year, like the voice of some great music that has power to hold the hearer's heart poised on eagles'wings above the sordid shame and folly of the earth.
An Ibáñez photo shows how Juan Morilla, poised on half-toe, holds a classic flamenco arc from hands to heel, like a bow bent.
Dressed in a white suit over a wide-lapel shirt, his hand poised on his breast, he stands a head above his classmates, and not just because of his resplendent afro.
You are all poised on the edge of a new beginning, of living life with greater emphasis on the more sublime in experience.
