A Year on the Brink

Thailand on the Precipice

Now, at last, we are climbing down from the precipice.

The world financial system again stood at the edge of a precipice.

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

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

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

Our livestock was almost at the brink of extinction, protected as well.

The country is at the brink of an abyss, its vegetation cover reduced to less than 3 per cent.

As of now, the world financial system is on the brink of collapse due to it's own shortcomings.

On the verge of civil war, Iraq just announced a restructuring of its foreign debt.

Erdogan brought Turkish democracy to brink of disaster before coup coup officers pushed democracy into the abyss. https t.co 9iWpWtXJLO Soner Cagaptay ( SonerCagaptay) July 16, 2016

Shifa Gardi reporting from the Mosul frontline on 25 February. She was killed the same day in a bomb explosion.

Measures have been taken to guarantee the rights of the national minorities, some of which were on the edge of losing their identity during the Soviet regime.

And I learned that over time traveling to Lebanon, a country that is routinely on the brink of civil war.

And in a way, without us even noticing, has ended up standing on the precipice of its own extinction, waiting for us to give it a big boot and knock it over.

In Palestine, increased poverty and unemployment, coupled with the decreasing revenues of the Palestinian Authority, had brought the economy to the verge of collapse.

A United Nations perennially on the brink of financial insolvency cannot effectively meet the challenges of the next century.

We are on the brink of a nuclear weapons race on the subcontinent, where relations between India and Pakistan have been tense for years....

And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are poised on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.

like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

You propose to go on... without the Athenian fleet, without support, with a lifeline that stretches back more than a thousand leagues into Macedonia.

The Fed cannot even provide credit to specific regions, let alone states on the verge of bankruptcy (for example, California).

But it moved too rapidly, making acquisitions in the United States and Europe that were financially draining, so that it nearly went bankrupt.

And indeed, I think, rather than being annihilated, the performing arts are posed on the brink of a time when we will be more important than we have ever been.

In the process, he transformed a country that was in the grip of drug barons and on the verge of becoming a failed state.

CAMBRIDGE People often ask if regulators and legislators have fixed the flaws in the financial system that took the world to the brink of a second Great Depression.

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

In fact, China already experienced the impact of deleveraging late last year, when the European financial system seemed on the brink of collapse.

Third, the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, which was on the brink of toppling even before North Korea s actions, is threatening to disintegrate. A number of small and mid sized powers will now ask themselves a radically new question if North Korea can be a nuclear power, why not us?

In 1996, when Pakistan was near bankruptcy and contemplating default, I went to Beijing as the country s finance minister to ask for help.

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.

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

The difficult twentieth century has become the century of confusion for the human soul and human society, and of the extreme tension of antagonisms that have many times brought civilization to the brink of destruction.

And in a way, without us even noticing, has ended up standing on the precipice of its own extinction, waiting for us to give it a big boot and knock it over. And get rid of it.

One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.

CAMBRIDGE People often ask if regulators and legislators have fixed the flaws in the financial system that took the world to the brink of a second Great Depression. The short answer is no.

Farther east, Afghanistan is suffering its second decade of violent conflict, while Pakistan seems to be chronically on the brink of war, civil war, or social breakdown.

Sometimes we are enthusiastic, because it seems to us that mankind is on the threshold of a rebirth, while at other times we feel disheartened because we feel it is on the brink of the abyss.

Most of the world's 11 million children who had lost one or both parents to AIDS lived in the SADC region. A vast number of children lived with sick and dying family members and are themselves infected with HIV.

On 26 February, Shifa Gardi, a journalist and presenter with the Iraqi Kurdish TV station Rudaw, lost her life in a bomb explosion while covering Iraqi forces' operations to reclaim Mosul from ISIS.

For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

The Arab Spring has produced a relatively favorable outcome in Tunisia, where it started, but developments in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen remain far more uncertain, while Syria is on the brink of civil war.

Even if this was due to temporary factors, including supply disruptions from the Japanese earthquake, labor and housing markets are still on the ropes in the US and some parts of Europe.

The US Federal Reserve would never be allowed to conduct such a regionally imbalanced policy. The Fed cannot even provide credit to specific regions, let alone states on the verge of bankruptcy (for example, California).