Indeed, now the French are looking wobbly.

A flower... swaying in the wind.

They swing left and right and up and down.

It has to go and swing.

The New Year just came in with the same omens of bleakness and death as the old one, increasing its destructive power tenfold.

I seen a front porch swing heard a diamond ring

It's going to wobble, right?

Finally, you're just swinging there, all alone and dead.

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

Swing down from there on a rope to save the woman you love.

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

By that comparison, democracy looks very, very good in terms of economic growth.

Mary had stepped close to the robin, and suddenly the gust of wind swung aside some

It's a book on culture, and, as you can see, culture is rapidly drifting around.

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

In fact, I had always thought it was a series of emotions, from very high to very low.

There was much betting, and the odds changed back and forth all night... ... and they changed the referees every four hours... ... so that the referee could get some sleep.

And when a person gets in car that drunk and a car oscillates at great deal there's a little pendulum that swings up and back and that will pull the car over the side...

We found Corky near the door, looking at the picture, with one hand up in a defensive sort of way, as if he thought it might swing on him.

That boy's temperature has been ahoverin'... between 100 and 100 and twotenths for three days... so none of that now.

The consciousness therefore, is only reality but appears as objects like a burning stick swung about appears to be continuous.

The Obama administration has wobbled in this balancing act, but thus far it has not fallen off.

The ship is swung , that is rotated about a fixed point while its heading is noted by alignment with fixed points on the shore.

And more as a consequence of the excited state in which this idea put Gregor than as a result of an actual decision, he swung himself with all his might out of the bed.

TEL AVIV Ever since Turkey s establishment as a republic, the country has oscillated between the Western oriented heritage of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and its eastern, Ottoman legacy.

Côte d'Ivoire is still balancing on the brink that is the unpleasant reality that all actors involved in trying to manage the crisis are faced with.

Revolutions often seesaw between extremes before the forces strong enough to overthrow governments become strong enough and legitimate enough to govern.

The Israeli strategy of peacemaking therefore oscillates between two visions while the Israeli left gives priority to the Palestinian problem, the Israeli right prefers pursuing a settlement with the big Arab powers.

Japan s past predilection toward saving has long implied a large trade and current account surplus, but now these surpluses are starting to swing the other way.

First, it illustrates the stop and go dynamic undergirding American politics, which can swing within just five years from a disturbing expansionism to an equally worrying withdrawal from the world.

And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, in which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got.

PRINCETON As Egypt trembles on the brink of civil war, with alarming levels of violence and hardening divisions on all sides, it is hard to find a truly bright spot anywhere in the Middle East or North Africa.

The Brussels elites are not likely to admit this fact without further ado their rhetoric still oscillates between doom and gloom pessimism and a kind of pro European PR that is concerned only with how best to sell the Union to Europe s citizens.

Caught between their desperate need for finance and markets and their need to respond to their citizens sentiments, they oscillate between condemnation and reassurance of China, struggling to find a coherent path that defends the West s principles without damaging its economic interests.

But why should a debt problem in economies that are usually called peripheral be so important for financial markets? Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, which is now teetering on the brink of insolvency, account for less than 6 of the eurozone economy.

Balancing hard power relations with governments with soft power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope. The Obama administration has wobbled in this balancing act, but thus far it has not fallen off.