Sentences with phrase «edge of collapse»

We have seen vulnerable children and families bear the brunt of our state's budget problems before, but never at a time when the service - delivery infrastructure is already incredibly fragile and on the very edge of collapse.

Striking the right balance is, after all, particularly important when you're teetering on the edge of collapse.

Virgin is closing a call centre in Swansea and Calvetron is to appoint administrators shortlyMore than 1,500 jobs are at risk after Virgin Media announced plans to shut a Swansea call centre, and as the company behind the fashion brands Jacques Vert and Windsmoor teeters on the edge of collapse.

While the global economy is teetering on the edge of collapse, what alternative systems could possibly be put in place quickly enough to prevent a total catastrophe should the current system be eliminated and / or substantially reworked?

Just a few years after scientists warned of impending ocean apocalypse, a handful of simple management tools have pulled some of Earth's fisheries back from the edge of collapse, according to a review of global fish populations and catch data.

The easy, dreamy glide of the Steadicam prowling or racing to catch up with the kids combined with those Central Florida bursts of blue, purple, and orange, all set against the reality of encroaching financial destitution, contributes to an overall sense of displacement, fantasy teetering on the edge of collapse.

Lots of complications abound, including a relentless saboteur, powerful German battleships and a U-Boat on the edge of collapse.

In the mid-1990s Cleveland's public schools teetered on the edge of collapse.

The good news is that educational romanticism is surely teetering on the edge of collapse.

Velazquez (1599 — 1660) was the official painter of the Madrid court, during the time the Spanish Empire teetered on the edge of collapse.

We will swim over to the edge of the collapse and drop down in between the collapse and the ocean floor to 100 feet.

A SUDA51 Trip — Set in the «Kill the Past» universe, the series continues its bleak look into a semi-futuristic world on the edge of collapse and the misfits and antiheroes that inhabit it.

It tells the story of Michael, a man with no past who must recover his identity and decode the two events that have brought the world to the edge of collapse.

Bravely Default isn't exactly a name that conjures up images of kingdoms on the edge of collapse, entire communities disappearing, and religious extremism tearing families apart.

So the player will have to help Michael, a man with no past, recover his identity and decode the events that brought the world to the edge of collapse.

In Nerve Reserve, the paintings appear to be teetering on the edge of collapse, but are precise in their completion.

That city may be undergoing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, but unlike when the big banks and giant financial outfits teetered at the edge of collapse, President Obama has made it clear that this time there will be no billion - dollar federal bailout.

Now its European arm is on the edge of collapse.

They've been screwed by other SEOs in the past, and now their businesses are on the edge of collapse.

And the president's decision to put two former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partners in charge of the effort — less than a decade after the bank's traders helped bring the economy to the edge of collapse — galvanized opposition from Democrats.