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

Northeast Asia on the Brink

A Year on the Brink

Rather, the banking system is at the brink of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

To the Brink and Back with Iran

Is the world economy on the brink of recession?

For countries on the brink, a merciless logic follows.

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.

We urge the Assembly to step back from the brink.

Some large EU countries are on the brink of recession.

LONDON Syria is a living nightmare. Egypt hovers on the brink.

It also brought both countries to the brink of economic disaster.

History In 1961, India was on the brink of mass famine.

The world seemed to be teetering on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.

We could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

The problem with brinkmanship is that, sometimes, one does go over the brink.

They will spar with each other for another six weeks, then go to the brink of the purported cliff and see who blinks at the last moment.

WASHINGTON, DC American foreign policy stands on the brink of substantial belt tightening.

Political commentators suggested that Ukraine was on the brink of a civil war.

The Belgian Revolution in 1830 and the resulting costs of keeping the Dutch army at a war footing until 1839 brought the Netherlands to the brink of bankruptcy.

At the same time, the European Central Bank unleashed its 1 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) long term refinancing operation, which pulled the European banking system back from the brink.

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

We are on the brink of a historic opportunity, and therefore of a challenge.

The underlying problem is that Brazil s growth model, which allowed 35 million people to enter the middle class in the last decade, is itself at the brink of exhaustion.

After France barely survived the tournament s first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.

Those scenes return as if from a nightmare children massacred inside burning churches, mobs using machetes at will in city slums, a country on the brink of breakdown.

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

However hasty these judgments may end up being, it certainly seems that the region s oldest and last political military organization is, at long last, on the brink of defeat.

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

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.

By contrast, those nations that remain nostalgic for the cause of Che, such as Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, are at this very moment poised on the brink of civil war.

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river

The financial sector and its free market ideology had brought the world to the brink of ruin.

In Finland, the anti European True Finns party has shot up from nowhere to the brink of power.

The most recent Greek rescue, put in place barely six weeks ago, is on the brink of collapse.

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

Those at the bottom are only a short step away from bankruptcy with all that that entails. Illness, divorce, or the loss of a job often is enough to push them over the brink.

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

Ironically, it is the German government s loose talk that has brought Europe to the brink of another debt crisis.

Niger is on the brink of what will be a major catastrophe if the world does not act now.

What a contrast between Borlaug and the Wall Street financial wizards that brought the world to the brink of ruin.

For, although the surge was important, two other factors played a critical role in bringing Iraq back from the brink.

The resulting political tensions led to a second Thirty Years War that brought Western civilization to the brink of collapse.

We are living according to some on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways.