The economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.
on the brink of death, war, disaster, success
Some of the firms there were reported on the brink of bankruptcy.
This was the week in which France was tottering on the brink of ruin.
“We are on the brink of a blackout,” said the economy minister, Lubomir Jahnatek.
Just a decade ago Indonesia was on the brink of catastrophe.
A country once on the brink of famine has turned itself into one of the biggest exporters of farm produce.
lodge a protest demanding that they rein in on the brink of the precipice and stop all provocations
But Mr Ackroyd is especially good at conveying Poe's precarious state, ever on the brink of self-destruction.
He is referring to the us central bank-orchestrated rescue of the Bear Stearns investment bank, which teetered on the brink of bankruptcy because of loan losses.
Carmelo Anthony has been the face of the Denver Nuggets since 2004, but on the brink of free agency, he's made it clear that he's ready to leave.
Under the orderly liquidation authority, the FDIC is provided with the tools to wind down a major financial firm on the brink of failure.
The titans of Detroit were tottering on the brink of liquidation, threatening to collapse and take more than a million jobs with them.
Yet in the past eight months we've seen our credit rating - which was on the brink of being downgraded - affirmed at the triple A level.
Twelve years ago Malaysia was teetering on the brink of financial ruin, and nervous foreign investors looked to Mr Anwar as a safer pair of hands.
Even now, when he was on the brink of an adventure which should make or mar him, he was up an hour after midnight to squeeze poor neighbours.
If there is a stridency in what I say it is because I believe Nigeria is once again on the brink of a precipice.
Now, just a few years after the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse, America’s great manufacturers of yesterday have emerged as some of the great manufacturers of today.
Others in the group weighed in and he scribbled, "We are on the brink of a new era that we have always dreamed of, an Egypt free of oppression and tyranny… This is a great awaking.
Having lost 2-1 at Napoli on Tuesday night, a result which leaves them on the brink of Champions League elimination, City have stuttered in their first test of a challenging few weeks.
It is about the sense in which all of the characters are on the brink of disappearance; their lives are so unreal and their relationships so tenuous they can barely be said to exist.
However, a recent study by researchers at Saint Louis University has shown that robot dogs are as good as real ones in alleviating the suffering of old people on the brink of extinction.
Instead of entering middle age and letting himself be chained to earth, he has floated away like a wisp, annihilated on the brink of a 50-date concert tour that I for one was dreading.
Her visit came amid increasing insurgent and sectarian violence in Iraq and growing concern among many experts that Iraq is on the brink of, if not already in, a civil war.
Not quite two years ago, oil was $10 a barrel and the cartel was on the brink of collapse. Now the oil price is well above $30 a barrel, and it shows little sign of coming down. But history warns against such hubris.
We're all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little... Don't you agree? 我们用都山学之你濒临绝望。我们所能如着的只是彼此凝望，彼此陪伴，开点玩才眼••••••，你不同意吗？
The Russian peasantry stood on the brink of disappearance.
On the eve of liberation, Shanghai's national industry was on the brink of bankruptcy.
He dissipated most of his money and was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Besieged by rival governments and ninja clans, Utakata stands on the brink of war.
Though less than forty years old, the health of the body is on the brink of collapse.
We need to claim the word back this Christmas.
The German government was bankrupt by the end of 1923, and the Reich tottered on the brink of total economic ruin.
When he took over, the business was on the brink of bankruptcy, but after years of hard work, he gradually turned it into a prosperous business.
Within a day of Lehman going bust, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, was on the brink of collapse and by early October so was Royal Bank of Scotland.
He doubts that iPS cells will save many threatened species, particularly those already on the brink of extinction like the northern white rhinoceros.
But my father, Rong Ma Ling, died on the brink of death, and it was not easy to celebrate his seventieth birthday.
A sigh, like a wind, and a light shave. Thoughts, such as the train running, do not know how to move forward. The heart is always on the road in April, and is walking on the brink of the north.
We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
To a person on the brink of dying from hunger, merely showing him piles of gold, silver, and other treasures is of no avail. It's the same case here.
Article18 When Party A is on the brink of bankruptcy and is under legal reorganization or Party A encounters serious business difficulties, and if Party B meets the conditions for layoff, Party A is entitled to cancel the contract.
It was less than a year ago that the tiny island nation was on the brink of default and forced to take a bailout with deep austerity measures attached.
We're all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little... Don't you agree? 我们都濒临绝望。我们所能做的只是彼此凝望，彼此陪伴，开点玩笑????????????，你不同意吗？
on the brink of falling in love.
We are on the brink of disaster when the rescue team arrive
They sparred for a moment, on the brink of a full fight.
Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him.
The comprehensive realignment of Tarim and Heihe rivers has saved the ecological environment on their lower reaches that was on the brink of collapse.
Allardyce has stepped down at the Reebok Stadium with the club fifth in the Premiership and on the brink of qualifying for Europe.
It's invincible, it's invincible, it's a skill that you can use when you're on the brink of war, regardless of physical strength or cooling.
As you know, we are on the brink of eradicating guinea-worm disease, and funds are being secured to ensure this happens.
The moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, contemplating the slumber of the just.
The WHO has said the world is on the brink of pandemic from the H1N1 virus, which has been most prevalent in North America and begun to infect large numbers in Japan, Britain and Spain.
I'm on the brink of ruin. It seems that everything is happening to me. I don't know what will happen in the future and I have to leave my fate to Heaven.
We're all on the brink of despair, all we can do is look each other in the face, keep each other company, joke a little... Don't you agree? 我们都濒临绝望。我们所能做的只是彼此凝望，彼此陪伴，开点玩笑••••••，你不同意吗？
Natalie is living on the brink of panic.
But then I realised what was happening: I was on the brink of spread-betting addiction.
The deal for Essien is on the brink of being completed, after the clubs brought weeks of negotiating to an end by settling on a fee.
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.
Such exclusions speak to the album's sharp focus — to move everything forward while constantly tipping on the brink of frantic instability.
As a result, the exchange rate regime collapsed, the financial system collapsed, the government teetered on the brink of credit default, and the economy plunged into a deep recession.
August 5, 2005—The World Bank has responded swiftly to the food crisis in Niger making funds from existing operations available for emergency food aid for people on the brink of starvation.
Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse.
I was certain I was on the brink of poverty, going to the poorhouse.
Mrs Palin's supporters are disgruntled. Not furiously teetering on the brink of violence, as some cable shows suggest, but heartily ticked off about the state of the nation.
This makes him a skilled negotiator and peacemaker, as he showed when he intervened in the early 1990s in KwaZulu Natal, then on the brink of civil war.
While the number of spoken languages continues to decline, at least one new one has been added to the inventory, though Koro too is on the brink of extinction.
There, his passport was taken by some unnamed men, although Shaikh seems unperturbed because at that stage he believed he was on the brink of international fame and "would not need it".
She hovered on the brink of death for three months as doctors battled to save her.
Activities have mostly been confined to the dusty region on the brink of the Sahara desert, but in recent months it has expanded beyond its home base.
Last October, when the global financial system was on the brink of collapse, the gold price actually fell: dropping 17 per cent in dollars and 8 per cent translated into sterling.
The UK's only helicopter manufacturer was on the brink of insolvency.
They told me that Turkey and Greece were on the brink of military confrontation and implored me to intervene to stop it.
The church seems to be on the brink of schism.
After losing two straight games and four of five, the Los Angeles Lakers find themselves both on the brink of securing a playoff seed and dangerously close to dropping out of the race altogether.
Spain's second-largest city says it is on the brink of a water emergency as a result of one of the worst droughts in living memory.
And target-date funds -- even those designed for investors on the brink of retirement -- dealt investors a blow as all their supposedly diversified holdings seemed to go down at once.
But the Kissingers were a Jewish family in a Germany that was on the brink of Nazism.
