But she said, as he came to die, he sat up on the side of the bed one day, and he asked the nurse if he could see the chaplain.

A week ago my dear friend and Brother, Mohammed Omer, was nearly beaten to DEATH and tortured by Israeli Security officers.

My friends grabbed my hands and pulled me away to protect me, and since that time I have been collecting stories about being on the verge of death, injury or arrest, and how people more rational than I would intervene and rescue me.

He stood on the edge of the cliff.

They camped at the water's edge.

Pakistan on the Precipice

They make their way on the edges of society.

Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown

Joy was an act of heroism, a blunt challenge in the face of death, while here joy turns into loads of guilt and the unreal rumination of stories that used to matter with the same friends with whom we shared life on the edge of death. Today we moved into living denial on the edge of our homeland, the denial that we are actually out.

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Northeast Asia on the Brink

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Even if he can vote to choose his rulers, a young man with AIDS who cannot read or write and lives on the brink of starvation is not truly free.

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

She writes that the co pilot urged a dying, unarmed journalist to pick up a weapon as he tried to crawl to safety and claims that the footage shows ... the Apache crew opening fire on civilians... .

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

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

BERKELEY Europe is again on the precipice.

MADRID Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss.

Return to the Abyss

Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

Georgia, which is both European and Asiatic, teeters on the edge of instability.

We urge the Assembly to step back from the brink.

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.

Today, Iraq may be on the verge of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.

LOS ANGELES A few weeks ago, the world was on the edge of disaster.

Other states in the region have been teetering on the brink of failure from the outset.

The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

Focus all of your time and attention on the kids who are on the bubble, the so called bubble kids kids where your intervention can get them just maybe over the line from failing to passing.

Russia is moving toward precipice.

So, we drop in the water, and we just sort of go over the edge of this cliff, and then we just start dropping, dropping, dropping.

Last September, the world stood on the edge of a global financial meltdown.

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

The worst drought in 60 years has left millions of people at the brink of starvation.

The United Nations is not merely on the verge of reform it is already in the process of reform.

And animals, almost on the brink of extinction, can be given a second chance. That's my next book.

NEW YORK It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity.

It was built near an oasis that was then on the extreme western edge of China.

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,

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

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

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