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

The Egyptian security forces subsequent failure to prevent demonstrators from storming Israel s embassy in Cairo brought matters to the brink of calamity.

Think about the critical moment of decision when a megabank, like JP Morgan Chase (with a balance sheet of roughly 2 trillion), may be on the brink of failure.

Northeast Asia on the Brink

A Year on the Brink

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

Is the world economy on the brink of recession?

To the Brink and Back with Iran

Some large EU countries are on the brink of recession.

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.

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

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

For countries on the brink, a merciless logic follows.

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

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

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.

We urge the Assembly to step back from the brink.

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

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

Market Failure and Political Failure

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

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

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

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

In fact, most war is a failure of politics, a failure of political imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Failure of China Bashing

The Failure of Inflation Targeting

The failure of Turkish policy

Disadvantages Like all active systems of any type, a mechanical failure can result in total failure of protection.

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.

Bush u0027s Four Years of Failure

Gaza and the Failure of Deterrence

The Failure of Free Market Finance

The rate of failure is higher.

Indeed, today the US economy is standing on the brink of biotechnological and, perhaps, nanotechnological revolutions of vast scale and scope.