Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown

And now, AP reports that the Gaza phone network is on the brink of collapse.

ITHACA, NY The US financial system is careening on the edge of a meltdown.

On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the brink of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the brink.

Finally, long term mismanagement and international sanctions have pushed the North Korean economy to the brink of collapse.

The Arab Spring exposed the fragile foundations upon which the entire Axis of Resistance was built, and has pushed it to the brink of collapse.

Likewise, in the fall of 2008, the threat of financial Armageddon brought not just Germany but the whole world to the brink of disaster.

Furthermore, the deliberate measures adopted and implemented by Israel to destroy the already fragile Palestinian economy have pushed the economy to the verge of collapse.

Water, electricity and healthcare facilities are being deliberately targeted. These war crimes have brought essential and life saving services to the brink of collapse. Critical shortages of medical supplies and physicians leave little help for the daily wounded.

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In the last three or so years the space for independent media in the country has shrunk markedly, with pro opposition papers and media delving into the conflict in the Kurdish speaking east teetering on the brink of extinction.

In a universe where humans have spread out and colonized planets in the Solar System, an event known as the Collapse saw the mysterious dissolution of these colonies, the end of the Golden Age, and mankind teetering on the brink of extinction.

Leaders talk about systemic risks and the necessity of bailouts, but at the same time let those responsible for two consecutive systemic failures maintain the same global casino that twice brought the world near collapse.

He stood on the edge of the cliff.

They camped at the water's edge.

Pakistan on the Precipice

Return to the Abyss

Finally, long term mismanagement and international sanctions have pushed the North Korean economy to the brink of collapse. As a result, the regime may be trying to divert people s attention from internal difficulties and push them to unite behind the emerging new leader.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s corruption tainted government tottering on the brink of collapse, there has been no official explanation of how India was caught napping in a militarily critical area where, in the recent past, China had made repeated attempts to encroach on Indian land.

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.

ITHACA, NY The US financial system is careening on the edge of a meltdown. All that has kept the much vaunted font of global capitalism from sliding into cataclysm is the US government, which has effectively become the guarantor and lender of last resort.

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

Northeast Asia on the Brink

Russia is moving toward precipice.

They make their way on the edges of society.

Post Crash Economics

The bridge is about to collapse.

Bush s Crash Test Economics

Managing Syria s Meltdown

All Pages of This Crash

And every time I approached the corner or the curb I would panic.

He's at the sharp knife edge of this problem.

That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.

To the Brink and Back with Iran

China Confronts the Global Meltdown

Cantareira System on the verge of collapse

The men sat on the edge of the boat and women at the bottom.

From Financial Meltdown to Global Depression?

When the crash came in 2008, massive fiscal and monetary expansion prevented US consumption from collapsing.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

That is the precipice on which Greece stands today.

China is dangerously near a crisis point.

BERKELEY Europe is again on the precipice.

MADRID Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss.