Sentences with phrase «of a precipice in»

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.

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Quite possibly, we are standing on the precipice of a virtual reality revolution that will further enhance our personal and work lives in ways we can't yet imagine.

With this in mind, if anyone you love is on the precipice of joining a professional sports league, do them a favor and find their bad tweets before someone else does.

«We believe PINK is on the precipice of collapse,» Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to investors on Sunday.

Black Panther is already the biggest movie of 2018, and now the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel and Walt Disney is on the precipice of cracking $ 1 billion in worldwide box - office revenue.

In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Donald Trump «is on the precipice» of fulfilling a campaign promise and passing a plan that she said would boost wages and economic growth.

«We are on the precipice of the first time I've seen in my career when we have demand - pull and supply - push happening at the same time to support almost $ 200 billion in infrastructure investment that's needed in the U.S.,» said Meg Gentle, president and CEO of LNG company Tellurian.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 - its highest levels in nearly a decade - and it was on the precipice of saying sayonara to a 16 - year bear market.

Meanwhile, in the fall of 2008, the country was on the precipice of an economic crisis.

Nevertheless, Malthus» recognition that the «preventive checks of moral restraint» implied the possibility of stationing a society at some distance from the Malthusian precipice is relevant to any consideration of the circumstances in which escape from the constraints of an organic economy might occur.

In a blistering, unprecedented letter to Premier Ed Stelmach, a key Progressive Conservative riding association says the party is «nearing the precipice of moral insolvency to govern.»

Since Congress has, so far, not acted we are now on the precipice of a much more uncertain and chaotic situation in which Puerto Rico will attempt to selectively cancel debts and bondholders will seek to use the federal courts to block the Puerto Rican government from operating until it pays up.

No where in her article did she say, «Do not study the Bible» she's simply saying that love is one of God's teachings and it's often the topic people want to discuss most of all when they're near the precipice.

«We would not be here today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama policy in the Middle East wasn't naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous,» Perry, the governor of Texas, said in a nationally televised speech during which he was surrounded by Jewish leaders.

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.

You place yourself in the hands of strangers who ask you to do foolhardy things, like walk backwards over a precipice with nothing but a rope around your waist or climb a sheer rock face with your fingers and toes.

But one day I finally reached the precipice of my life thus far and found myself in the understanding that I was me with or without God... and I was good... and the I loved people... and that happiness and joy are not contingent on God.

Every time I found myself at the precipice of a committed relationship with him, I would have a strong restraint in my heart, like a glaring sign that read, «Do not enter.»

Precipice Design worked closely with Mundipharma International and its network of independent associated companies in developing packaging aimed at helping to address some of the day - to - day challenges faced by patients using an inhaler and improve correct device usage.

One player came into the CIF North Coast Section Division II title game on the precipice of making Northern California high school football history, the other knew he had it in him.

The Bills are the NFL's version of Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards, a team constantly straddling the precipice of self - destruction but always letting down the poor blokes who picked first in the office death pool.

While you're exploring, don't miss the spectacular precipice of Nuuanu Pali — some 2000 feet of sheer rock over which King Kamehameha I drove his enemies in battle.

He is on the precipice of stardom after the 2015 - 16 season he had where he finished behind only Higuain's insane final season in Naples on the scoring charts.

Now that homebirth is on the precipice of being banned given that independent midwives are likely going to be denied indemnity insurance from next year, the suggestion that all women who homebirth are crazy radicals or that homebirth represents the majority of birthing women in Australia (only about 2 %) is ridiculous.

On the precipice of entering the third and final trimester, many women will experience a surge in confidence, endurance, and strength as they make strides towards the big day.

In a world full of ravines and precipices, Tough argues, learning navigation skills is critically important for a child, and parents, teachers and coaches need to teach character and fortitude.

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.

Stepping back from the email precipice for a minute (that Cap Ad study has been stirring up some BIG waves in the online advocacy world), ealier this year the Bivings Report conducted a study of how campaigns for U.S. Senate were using the internet that's worth checking out.

«Staten Island is on the precipice of major economic changes thanks to North Shore development projects like the wheel,» said Oddo in a statement.

«The current state sponsored insecurity is pushing Nigeria off the brink of the precipice and the NCEF is surprised that educated people in the North are unable to read the handwriting on the wall,» the statement explained.

Approaching the precipice, the cabinet sat on in the charabanc of doom, no one grabbing the handbrake.

As Florida Politics reported last week, Democrats believe they are on the precipice of retaking the Florida Senate for the first time in the 21st century — but JJR's congressional run, which since Rick Scott's signature put resign - to - run back into Florida law for federal offices, and which would require JJR to leave the Senate in April, could jeopardize their narrow path to do so.

And after a vote in the State Senate last week, New York is on the precipice of signing up.

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 brinIn 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 brinin 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 brinin some ways on the best way to get back from the brink.

«We are at the precipice, it is not simply about renewing rent regulation, it's about strengthening rent regulation and we know that opponents to rent regulation have spent millions of dollars to try to elect their hand picked folks in the state legislature,» Johnson said.

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.

Republican women candidates in Albany County last year harnessed the tea party outrage sweeping the country and pushed a popular Democratic assemblyman to the precipice of defeat.

While 1199 endorsed the Republican candidate in that race, Democrats picked up the seat anyway and are on the precipice of retaking the majority in the fall elections.

Today some of the best minds in physics are fixated on the event horizon, pondering what would happen to hypothetical astronauts and subatomic particles upon reaching the precipice of a black hole.

My journey to this lonely precipice of modern thought began last week, with an article in the paper about government efforts to «reverse the long - term decline in the number of children studying science.»

«Japan in crisis» screams the newspaper headline, alongside cartoons of a bullet train rushing headlong over a precipice and a hysterical «salariman» committing hara - kiri.

The field is now truly standing at the precipice, where either it continues to move upward in its progress, or drops into an abyss of unsolvable challenges.

Bioinks for Bioprinting: Three - Dimensional Printing in Research and Medicine Three - dimensional (3D) printing is on the precipice of becoming a useful technology in biomanufacturing, research, and clinical medicine.

The youngest of Vogue's editors - in - chief, Cheung was on the precipice of leaving her career in fashion to become a lawyer when she was offered the role.

With a full length album teetering on the precipice of release, PARTYBABY is setting up to make a nice splash in 2016.

What follows is escalating terror, with George stalking Rose, Rose desperately trying to leave town, the police searching for both of them, and finally George and Polly adrift in a boat heading for the precipice.

The interaction finds the Black Panther, T'Chaka, an African superhero and king, face - to - face with his brother, N'Jobu, an armed revolutionary speaking of Black liberation — on the precipice, no less, of L.A.'s Rodney King Riots, in the nearby city where the Black Panther Party was born.

Nixon as Hamlet, Nixon as Lear, Nixon as Blanche DuBois, Nixon as Krapp — clutching every last tape to his breast with the wild fury and despair of a man on the precipice... Nixon in his study, poring over his past, gazing at his own multiplied mo...