On the brink of losing his family's Manhattan apartment, he finally took to the streets.
The United States is not on the brink of turning into Oceania, or even Singapore.
And two great American companies, Chrysler and GM, stood on the brink of liquidation.
The coalition has often teetered on the brink of collapse in the past 12 months.
There was a time when the automobile industry was on the brink of financial disaster.
Native Americans, too, were on the brink of extermination up until just several decades ago.
This sort of election-eve scandal is like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
So, what can you do if you find yourself on the brink of breaking down?
The slump has raised fears that the sector could be on the brink of recession.
On Monday, investors panicked in a way that suggested the U.S. economy was on the brink.
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Argentina is on the brink, reeling under higher taxes imposed at the behest of the IMF.
Currently on the brink of collapse after an embezzlement scandal, it once was China's best firm.
The match teetered on the brink for 11 minutes as neither side could manage a score.
Indeed, 30 years ago, extensive deforestation left the tree on the brink of extinction.
When the President took office, the economy was on the brink of a depression.
We were in the midst of an economy that was on the brink of collapse.
The two sides have seemed on the brink of a fully blown trade war.
Generous pension and benefit programs and rampant corruption and waste had Wisconsin on the brink.
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Is Algeria, struggling to end a seven-year-old Islamist insurgency, on the brink of another disaster?
ABB, a rival engineering giant that also teetered on the brink after poor management and financial incompetence.
Greece is not expected to default, yet, along with Spain, it continues to totter on the brink.
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As a result, the economy slowed again last summer and was on the brink of another recession.
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Mr Sharif also underlined the deep crisis, on many fronts, which has put Pakistan "on the brink".
But Mr Ackroyd is especially good at conveying Poe's precarious state, ever on the brink of self-destruction.
This economy was on the brink of collapse -- you of all people remember where we were.
For all the online chatter, no one thinks China is on the brink of a jasmine revolution.
She also got her wish for resolution authority over important non-bank companies on the brink of failure.
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He gave warning that several countries seemed to be on the brink of breaking the pact's rules.
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But you draw so gloomy a picture that one could think Poland on the brink of collapse.
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