Example sentences for: brinkmanship

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • [They] have been known to engage in brinkmanship with their superiors.


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