Sentences with phrase «edge of the precipice»

Gary stands on the edge of the precipice of Brigitte's mind and stares intently into the chasm... straining in vain to see anything resembling form or definition.

It's got to be for a purpose, and the purpose in 2010 was to rescue a British economy which was teetering on the edge of a precipice.

When you stop walking in the belief of the imminent return of Jesus Christ, you are walking on the edge of a precipice.

Niebuhr concluded that while «the Lutheran side of the Reformation always walks on the edge of the precipice of superamoralism, not to say antinomianism, the Calvinistic Reformation is imperiled by the opposite danger of a new moralism and legalism.

Suddenly an instinct made me draw hastily back - I was on the very edge of a precipice, one step more and I must have fallen.

Given the current US situation, another joke comes to mind: «In 1945 [the year communists took over power] Poland was standing on the edge of a precipice.

We ask that these discussions today be as frank as possible because in situations like this, unless the National Assembly rises like one man, with a conscience, commitment and patriotism, to unveil the facade of partisan politics, partisan advantages, and face the real issues we stand of the edge of a precipice.

«It played brash, aggressive moves — it walked on the edge of a precipice,» Scheaffer anthropomorphizes.

Now it's time to face the edge of the precipice and put together all that you've learned about moving forward with balance and skill.

The last time I dreamt of unicorns I was teetering at the edge of the precipice of great change.

The main characters move inexorably, helplessly toward disillusionment and alienation even as they seem to be always standing in more or less the same spot: at the edge of a precipice.

For instance, there's that one with the cat clinging to the edge of a precipice with the caption «Hang in there!»

It takes courage to engage this system and just crawl over the edge of a precipice with your foot off the brake, but it will not fail you.

Credit Card Debt Consolidation or Settlement: Two Debt Resolution Titans Federal Reserve statistics bluntly confirm that millions of Americans are living on the edge of a precipice called credit card debt: Nearly 50 % of card holders in the U.S. carry a credit card balance Outstanding credit card balances top $ 800 billion The average rate of... Read more»

If you accidentally tumble over the edge of a precipice, your character will bust out a pretty little parasol and float slowly to safety.

There's the time you hop into a giant ice - skate, and trace lines in the ice as you try to send a skating rival off the edge of the precipice.

Currently, the exhibition's description is a quote from Bradford: «Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

Detail of MARK BRADFORD, «Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

«Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

Now we stand on the edge of a precipice that is of our own making.

Mid-sized law firms in the UK are on the edge of a precipice in terms of the opportunities for growth presented in today's marketplace.

«It doesn't mean Alberta households are on the edge of a precipice, because they do earn more still than Canadians in other regions of the country.

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«Maybe this is a sign that we have reached a moment, like 2000, where investors wake - up abruptly from their liquidity - induced slumber and realise they have inadvertently sleep - walked to the edge of an investment precipice.»

The difference back then was the world was on the edge of a financial precipice.

Are we dangling on the edge of an email precipice?

At least two — the City of Long Beach and Rockland County — have reached the edge of a fiscal precipice.

Don't look now, but a quick deal to sidestep the federal government's fiscal cliff could end up pushing New York state to the edge of its own precipice.

Mr. Ritter In The 1st District The candidates vying for the state House of Representatives in Hartford's 1st District agree that Hartford is dangling on the edge of a fiscal precipice, but the two friendly rivals divide in some ways on the best way to get back from the brink.

We are pushing ourselves into the (edge of the) precipice of another civil war.

Another time it nearly rolled off a very tall cliff to its certain demise but instead plowed through a pile of stacked coal near the edge and slowed down just enough for Dad, running in cowboy boots, to catch up, throw himself through the passenger's door, and jam on the brake mere feet from the precipice.

Whether he has his strings rush up to a precipice and hold while the woodwinds dither on the edge — or sends whole sections of his orchestra chasing each other, repeating... Read More

One of its highlights is «Jumping Rock,» an enormous, craggy boulder that punctuates the bay's western edge where daredevils leap from the cliff - like precipice into the sea during the calm summer season.

Experience the awe of the spectacular views from your suite's private viewing deck or feel as though you're floating on air with a dip in your personal plunge pool on the very edge of the breathtaking precipice.

Traditionally, the edge has been avoided as it both suggests jeopardy and violates the comfortable and familiar framing of the art object by its display surface; yet artists have been drawn to the precipice by its theatricality as well as by subjective and formal concerns.

These are freakin» chaotic bufurcations and the freakin» planet could fall off the freakin» edge of the freakin» climate precipice any freakin» minute now.

It's 2017, the year in which tablets stand atop a precipice: poised in a position of greatness, offering enough power to be considered as potential laptop - replacements; yet dangerously close to falling off the edge for the simple fact that, well, people... Read more

It's 2017, the year in which tablets stand atop a precipice: poised in a position of greatness, offering enough power to be considered as potential laptop - replacements; yet dangerously close to falling off the edge for the simple fact that, well, people aren't buying into tablets like they used to.