Sentences with phrase «edge of financial collapse»

With the company teetering on the edge of financial collapse, the CES reveal is seen by many as a Hail Mary event.

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It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

Already support for the main parties is fraying at the edges — witness the results of the European Parliament elections in 2009, after Britain had been hit by the financial tsunamis from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Northern Rock.

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.

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.