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Example sentences for: brink

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The event was staged atop a Manhattan skyscraper where peregrine falcons, birds that have rebounded from the brink of extinction owing to federal protection, now nest.
If the Spice Girls did not push us to the brink, nothing will."
Not only does Tung's container-shipping line operate within a cartel market where routes and quotas are routinely carved out, but it was bailed out, as he acknowledged last year, by the Chinese government in 1985 when on the brink of bankruptcy.
In 1983 Wuhan was flooded in spite of monumental preparations for the worst, and the great floods of 1998 (the worst in 54 years) again pushed Wuhan to the brink.
Written details were not available at press time (and USAT notes that U.S. officials aren't sure that Annan could speak frankly about it to anyone while he remained in Iraq where phone lines are not secure), but the dailies are reporting that Hussein has agreed to open his presidential palaces to U.N. weapons inspectors--the sticking point that has brought the U.S. to the brink of warfare.