Sentences with word «brinkmanship»

A more pressing concern, noted Shenfeld, is that protracted brinkmanship over the federal budget could subject the U.S. economy to a series of spending shocks — with the flow of federal funds being repeatedly cut off abruptly via either the shutdown or the debt ceiling — which could take a toll on the U.S. recovery and Canada's GDP growth too.

It is imperative that the Congresswoman reverse her attempt to attach this much needed support and relief for stricken families to a game of political brinkmanship in Washington, D.C.»

Greece was in turmoil and the world economy in limbo Thursday as a high - stakes game of political brinkmanship in Athens led Prime Minister George Papandreou to abandon his explosive plan to put a European rescue deal to a referendum.

There is also brinkmanship on both sides.

«We were hoping it was just brinkmanship and cooler heads would prevail.

Everton held out against Chelsea to keep young England centre - back John Stones, while West Brom won a game of brinkmanship with Tottenham Hotspur over Saido Berahino — much to the player's fury.

If he really feels like he's got nothing to lose, Clegg might just be in the mood for a bit of nuclear brinkmanship.

ALBANY — Fifty - five state parks and historic sites will remain closed, at least for the time being, after a funding measure fell victim to an unusually ferocious case of budget brinkmanship between Gov. David Paterson and lawmakers Monday.

With Cameron having rejected numerous forms of wealth taxation and backed the one widely accepted cut that could be made to the welfare budget, the Tories are opting for brinkmanship.

Brinkmanship aside, it has no leverage.

Although the budget deal falls short of the grand bargain that Obama and congressional Republicans once aspired to, it ends the cycle of fiscal brinkmanship — for now — by preventing another shutdown for nearly two more years.

Skipping an annual dinner hosted by the White House press corps, the president suggested at a rally in Michigan that he would use brinkmanship to get his way on trade and border policies.

In the most current round of hostile words and phrases from Europe's largest debtor country, Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Athens» brinkmanship above employing economic reforms could consequence in a «Grexident».

It does represent a certain amount of brinkmanship from the forward, although Chelsea may also run the risk of keeping a potentially unhappy squad member, even if Costa insisted on stating how content he is at Stamford Bridge.

To the casual observer it has the appearance of disorganised brinkmanship.

British Brinkmanship and Gaelic Games: EU Treaty Ratification in the UK and Ireland from a Two Level Game Perspective.

Nothing is certain when it comes to Thursday's tuition fees vote, as ministerial brinkmanship clashes with the genuine dismay of government backbenchers.

Rather, the suffering incurred by the divorce has been so great that those in power are running out of options to maintain their positions, while brinkmanship and desperation threaten to see the bickering between the two former partners to spiral out of control.

«The fact that the deadline may pass is outrageous and the legislators are playing brinkmanship.

In a dreadfully volatile way, the current brinkmanship is a symptom of this re-evaluation - and a fundamental cultural consensus that the electorate has to reach.

Amid Federal Brinkmanship, New York City Officials Redouble Support for Planned Parenthood, by Meg O'Connor

The Ukip threat hasn't been nullified; Labour are 10 points ahead in the polls — this is not propitious ground for electoral brinkmanship.

One can not help speculating that McCluskey is perhaps only calling for it to be published out of pure brinkmanship, because he knows that Miliband will not do it.

McDormand's facility with the demented comic brinkmanship of the Coen brothers primes her for McDonagh's cutting humor, but the filmmaker's sense of moral reckoning allows the actress to explore similar terrain to different ends.

by Walter Chaw The theory is that gangs of artists working at around the same time in the same place, in complementary milieux, can lead to something like artistic Darwinism, a certain macho brinkmanship that pushes genres towards a kind of organic evolution.

There's a bit of creative brinkmanship going on here.

It's one of the strengths of le Carre's story, adapted for the screen by Hossein Amini, that Perry never knows quite how much to trust his own handler in this risky bit of international brinkmanship.

Well, the political gridlock in Washington has led to a game of brinkmanship around the debt ceiling (which needs to be acted on in the next two weeks), a failure to pass a solid budget, and no consensus whatsoever about how to start reducing the deficit by either cutting spending or raising taxes.

Nuclear Throne's greatness lies in how all these variables and considerations pull against one another, giving rise to shifting layers of strategy, surprise and white - knuckle brinkmanship.

Can any lawyer who has experienced the heady thrill of that kind of brinkmanship ever again be satisfied with the boredom of a partnership committee meeting?

It came seven months after the fiscal year began, but was done without shutdown brinkmanship.

When problems arise, some couples become absolutely mired in a tit - for - tat cycle that puts brinkmanship and «settling the score» ahead of addressing and mitigating anger.

Oh, don't worry, there will be plenty of petty squabbling and brinkmanship over budget cuts.

However, new democratic institutions and constitutions are not able to instantly change long standing cultural habits, curb economic manipulation, and soften political brinkmanship.

I hope it's just brinkmanship.

It canvasses the possibility of persistent conflict in Southeast Asia, India and China including border wars, nuclear brinkmanship and civil unrest.

Of course, this may all be brinkmanship on behalf of Trump.

«It's never a good thing when the markets are spending time focused on rancour and brinkmanship in Washington instead of being focused on what are some pretty reasonable fundamentals that we're getting,» said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

That is aside from the disruption he caused at AFC, the game of brinkmanship he tried to play with Ozil and the obvious influence he had on chamberlain.

Newfoundland's brinkmanship is introducing considerable uncertainty into the delicate CETA process.

But the brinkmanship has achieved one useful purpose.

All this brinkmanship has come at a time of increased tensions, with North Korea ramping up its threats to bomb the U.S..

The extraordinary back - to - back appeals by Obama and Boehner gave no indication that weeks of brinkmanship and sputtering talks over long - term deficit reductions were on the verge of ending.