Example sentences for: brinkmanship

How can you use “brinkmanship” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They flourished on brinkmanship, buying companies only to dismember them and caring only for the chance to crush their opponents.

  • 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.

  • Uncowed by the posturing and brinkmanship attributed to both sides, Albright quickly switched gears, from passive envoy to diplomacy maven.

  • 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.


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