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Example sentences for: brinkmanship
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They flourished on brinkmanship, buying companies only to dismember them and caring only for the chance to crush their opponents.
The cover story claims that Serb brinkmanship spurred some NATO concessions during negotiations, including the extra four days for withdrawal of Serb troops and a trimmed demilitarized zone.
In the Muslim world, the Pakistani daily Dawn announced a "new American doctrine of unilateral brinkmanship" by which the United States claimed to be sole "international sheriff, judge and hangman, all at one and the same time."
[They] have been known to engage in brinkmanship with their superiors.
The inherent problem with Cold War brinkmanship, as the Harvard theorist Thomas C. Schelling has noted, is that it could elicit concessions only if one's opponent didn't know exactly where the brink was.