I stood upon the brink.

We are at the brink.

He is shivering on the brink.

Middleearth stands upon the brink of destruction.

The man was on the brink of death.

We stood on the brink of a cliff.

Some are actually on the brink of extinction.

Saul, I'm on the brink of getting my bankroll.

We are always at the brink of the known.

has not only driven to the brink of catastrophe,

Four years ago, America stood on the brink of a depression.

You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right.

When we were on the brink of starvation, they saved our lives.

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

In 1939, as in 1914, the world was on the brink of war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Now, rather than saying that we're on the brink of our own annihilation,

So the Internet as we know it is on the brink of destruction.

And animals, almost on the brink of extinction, can be given a second chance.

Let us hope the world will never be on the brink of a nuclear war.

But the way I see it, we all stand on the brink of a threshold.

In principle, the war effort is planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.

We're on the brink of war and you're supposed to be finding a diplomatic solution.

They silently carried out executions to restore order to a world on the brink of chaos.

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

Was that before you were thrown in the brink as a cadet for drunk and disorderly or after?

How do you introduce the concept of running to a nation that is constantly at the brink of war?

Matsui pulled the Giants back from the brink with a grand slam that gave them a come from behind victory.

But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

Their weakness invited our enemies to strike... and their corruption and arrogance... have brought the Empire to the brink of defeat!

The Republic fleet is on the defensive and pushed to the brink, as war rages in the muchcontested outer rim territories.

It was the eve of our good queen's Diamond Jubilee, and the year Her Majesty's government came to the very brink of disaster.

until (on the brink of it) their eyes, ears and skin will testify to their deeds on the Day when the enemies of God are driven to the fire.

We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work, when the wages of honest labor will liberate families from the brink of hardship.

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.

But I learned something more profound than that, which is that the leaders the managers of Ghana's economy were making breathtakingly bad decisions that had brought our economy to the brink of collapse.

Now, both species were hunted to the brink of extinction by the early whalers, but the Southern right whales have rebounded a lot better because they're located in places farther away from human activity.

But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the brink on dramatic change.

Which is better, the mosque that is founded for pious purposes and for achieving God's pleasure or that which is based on the brink of a crumbling bank and which may crumble into hell at any moment? God does not guide the unjust.

Is he who founded his building upon duty to Allah and His good pleasure better or he who founded his building on the brink of a crumbling, overhanging precipice so that it toppled with him into the fire of hell? Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.

Is he who founds his building on Godwariness and the pursuit of Allah s pleasure better off or he who founds his building on the brink of a collapsing bank which collapses with him into the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

Is he who founds his structure upon piety and acceptance from God better, or he who founds his structure on the brink of a cliff that is about to tumble, so it tumbles with him into the Fire of Hell? God does not guide the unjust people.

Is he who founds his building on the fear of Allah and His pleasure, better or he who founds his building on the brink of a crumbling edge so that it will tumble with him into the Fire of Gehenna? Allah does not guide the harmdoers.

So is one who established his foundation upon the fear of Allah and upon His pleasure better, or the one who laid his foundation upon the brink of a falling precipice, so it fell along with him into the fire of hell? And Allah does not guide the unjust.

Why, is he better who founded his building upon the fear of God and His good pleasure, or he who founded his building upon the brink of a crumbling bank that has tumbled with him into the fire of Gehenna? And God guides not the people of the evildoers.