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Example sentences for: brink

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Lastly, there is a growing recognition, driven by a variety of worldwide trends and pressing long-term fiscal challenges, that the federal government is on the brink of an enormous transformation in what the government does, how it does business, and, in some cases, who does the government's business.
And now he's brought the President to the brink of impeachment.
These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
The Times lead is spurred by the latest report from the U.N. chief arms inspector to Kofi Annan concluding that Iraq is no closer now to meeting U.N. requirements for the lifting of sanctions than it was last fall, when Saddam Hussein went to the brink to prevent further arms inspections.
Table Rock, named after a ledge that’s long since fallen in the river, is right on the brink of Horseshoe Falls.