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.
Currently on the brink of collapse after an embezzlement scandal, it once was China's best firm.
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.
Is Algeria, struggling to end a seven-year-old Islamist insurgency, on the brink of another disaster?
As a result, the economy slowed again last summer and was on the brink of another recession.
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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.
The stadium fell silent - and six minutes later, England's world was on the brink of collapse.
The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that the entire United States and Europe economies were on the brink of recession.
Decades later, this pioneering product is on the brink of extinction, slowly being phased out for the good.
But as a political and legal enterprise, California hangs dangerously on the brink of financial and economic collapse.
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It's also true that most economists think we're either in recession or right on the brink of recession.
France has a weak innovation sector, and its economy is stagnant, teetering on the brink of debt crisis.
As Moscow-bound Western reporters are finally discovering, tens of millions of Russians are on the brink of ruin.
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