John Bridgeman, the present director-general, is on the point of being pushed out, having upset too many ministers.
Although America's economy no longer looks on the point of collapse, it has failed to return to healthy growth.
On the point of twins, a look at the family tree might help.
The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under.
However, on the point of how we have learned from our old titles, there are a few things of note.
In nineteen eighty-one, Iraq was on the point of acquiring nuclear power. 10.17.01 Narrator The Osirak reactor was an experimental plutonium plant.
Carlos Tevez is on the point of coming to heel at Manchester City after claiming that he has been treated as a dog.
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On the point of intellect, the show makes an awkward but compelling case that Marcel Duchamp stands centrally in the history of abstraction.
At the time it was derelict, on the point of collapse, but they have renovated it to meet the specifications of a luxury retreat.
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Ponty returned on the offensive and during a spell in Caerphilly's 22 Parker and Gareth Wyatt were desperately tackled on the point of touchdown.
In 1994, when Mr Savimbi was on the point of possible capture, the politicians signed a peace agreement and ordered the soldiers to halt their advance.
It stands on two fore legs and one hind leg, with the other hind leg raised and touching the ground only on the point of the hoof.
So why not, the Americans seem on the point of urging, stop fiddling around, get down to the big issues at once and shorten the three-year deadline?
And it was, as we now know from Alistair Darling, on the point of making that cameraman's behaviour entirely rational: the ATMs were "hours away" from shutting down.
Depending on the point of view, zombies may result from an act of God, the irresponsible use of science, an environmental disaster, a cosmic event and so forth.
They disappeared in 1998 on the point of being arrested.
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England rediscovered the faith that had deserted them during the half-time interval against Sweden - and a famous and wonderfully well-deserved victory was on the point of being won.
Beyond this, the administration seems on the point of accepting that its post-Clinton policy of benevolent disengagement from the Israeli-Palestinian political dispute is no longer adequate to the situation.
In a tragic twist, New York's commercial-property market also looks like another winner: it had been on the point of a slump, but has now been revived by the attacks.
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Moreover, Facebook has nowhere near as robust an advertising model as, say, Google, whose search-related ads are served up to users when they are often on the point of making a purchase.
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The Americans were on the point of agreeing to this (a reward for British toadying, say the jealous, and not only they) when the situation in Sierra Leone fell apart, as did the mission's purpose.
The official line, that the suspects were on the point of fleeing, got some confirmation from the fact that one of them did indeed get away to Cyprus, where he was arrested and then, inexplicably, bailed.
Turkey and Brazil resuscitated the deal in the spring of 2010, but by then Iran's stockpile had grown and Mr Obama was on the point of guiding a new, hard-won sanctions resolution through the Security Council.
Syria already spends considerably more on petroleum imports and on royalties to foreign operators than it earns from crude oil exports, and it is now on the point of becoming a net oil importer in volume terms as well.
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His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.
Now, however, Iran has a new president and American policy could be on the point of change though Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, has urged people not to read too much into the administration's decision to let the deal go ahead.
On the point of receiving Ibrahim Gambari, the UN Security Council's special envoy, they managed to ensure that the first item on his agenda would be the junta's relations with the UN, rather than the crying need for political reform and national reconciliation in Myanmar.
Indeed, K-J relies on widespread brand recognition. (Jackson filed a losing lawsuit against Gallo for mimicking K-J's label with its cheaper Turning Leaf line.) But Jackson believes that wine is sold differently from other consumer products: K-J eschews most advertising--it focuses instead on the point of sale in restaurants and retailers.
Given the enormous obligations of many Ivy League endowments to fund general university operations, their portfolios were positioned on the wrong point of the efficient frontier.
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On the highest point of the roof gable, a vaned wind turbine was located.
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