Sentences with phrase «on precipice»

It's not just a feeling that has come from finally having completed projects like fresh paint on the brick and new countertops in our kitchen, although we do feel so grateful to be on the precipice of being able to cook a proper Christmas dinner in a new oven.

Given that the decline in energy prices began in mid-2014, we are likely on the precipice of improved retail sales performance in the first half of 2015.

The majority of the panelists believe the United States is on the precipice of another tech bubble.

But today, New York City's financial executives look at Jersey City as a sixth borough, Hoboken has become a residential area filled with young professionals and the accompanying restaurants and nightlife, and Newark — boasting a recently renovated CBD — stands on the precipice of a major renaissance.

After almost three decades of helping others build their careers and fulfill their aspirations in the real estate industry, I find myself on the precipice of applying those same theories and models directly into my personal career.

«Gen X sellers» median tenure in their previous home was 10 years, which puts many of them selling a property they bought right around the time home values were on the precipice of declining,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

They had been on the precipice of a divorce but had backed away in horror after getting a closer look at all the damage that would have followed.

In this moment of constant turmoil, it is easy to feel like we may not make it through this particularly painful contraction, but the truth of history is that we have been on the precipice of the chaotic unknown before and have birthed beauty and resistance and triumph out of it every time,» said Sonya Renee Taylor.

In those pauses — balanced on the precipice of happiness — I felt intensely alive.

As such, students on the precipice of their careers, armed with freshly minted degrees often shortchange their job search by building a lackluster, conformist and outdated resume strategy.

Because he had researched behind the curtain to read my pithy, content - and story - driven website, this prospect was on the precipice of hiring me.

SHIELD is right on the precipice.

But incredibly, Sony turned that less - than - desirable start to its advantage, and as we stand on the precipice between seventh and eighth generation consoles and take stock of the last six years, any fool can see PlayStation 3 ends the era victorious.

Amid recent talk of mainstream acceptance, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies stand on the precipice providing -LSB-...]

As the UK parliament is on the precipice of passing a new surveillance bill into law, one British engineer is trying to halt its progress through an anonymizing system that runs on top of the Tor anonymity network.

Harvey Schachter of The Globe interviewed Edward Hess on how workers can improve in an era balancing on the precipice of machine learning:

Doesn't sound much like a business model on the precipice of extinction.

It's the job of the media to inform and question and help progress issues of society rather than further stoke the flames of two parties constantly on the precipice of another horrible incident.

How can we be on the precipice of such consequences while local climate change remains small compared with day - to - day weather fluctuations?

However, in almost every case, each of these new mammal species is thought to be threatened with extinction, with some of them already on the precipice.

And 2 ˚C is far, far too high, given the now clear evidence that at less than 1 ˚C of warming we are already on the precipice of climate catastrophe, from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Himalayas to Siberia.

The typhoon should serve as another reminder that the world is on a precipice.

For example, while it may not seem very likely that we at this very moment are on the precipice of the next Ice Age, it nevertheless is very likely that all life on Earth will someday face just such an event — whether or not that fact is appreciated when it happens — and irrespective of the fact that there will be nothing that any living thing can do about it.

Brad Johnson, who writes the Wonk Room blog for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenged me to clarify my stance on things, pointing to a post by his colleague Joe Romm concluding that «human civilization is on the precipice» and asking if I agreed.

US intelligence is warning of the dangers of shrinking resources and experts say the world is «standing on a precipice»

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.

Basically, living in the studio as I found myself on the precipice of homelessness, this climactic creation measures 6.5 ′ x 10 ′ and is representative of my collective experiences as

On the Precipice is a stunning new programme of immersive film installations exploring - through large - scale moving image artwork -...

Recent exhibitions include, «On the Precipice» Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2014, «Artists Musings: An Installation»» CCC Gallery, Plymouth NH 2014, and «2015 Reflections from the West,» Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou, China.

Cat Tyc is a Brooklyn writer / artist whose work exists on the precipice of poetics and mediology.

And this late bloomer is on the precipice of something big.

This work, Mississippi River Bank, depicts the forced removal of Native Americans during the 1830s, capturing the figures - led by a lone horseman - on the precipice of an uncertain future.

Hijacking a phrase from The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard's first science fiction novel and one of his London - based dystopic tales, Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden portrays the world we live in today: on the precipice but hopeful for a less fragile future.

Having been in New York City barely a year at this time, Haring stood on the precipice into his own lifelong career, which he would spend cultivating one of the most limited, iconic vocabularies in the history of art.

The pieces teeter on the precipice of annihilation; by forging the work of canonical artists in gunpowder, Mastrangelo simultaneously pays homage to the work of earlier iconoclasts and seeks to destroy them for himself.

Standing on the precipice of the sparkling reflection pool, my fingers finally regaining sensation from the cold, I wanted to cry.

Jones hopes the title evokes «this trembling sense of being on the precipice of massive political change».

Entitled Cellular World, the exhibition will bring together new commissions and existing work by artists examining the interface between humans and technology, reacting on how our current situation sits on a precipice between utopia and dystopia.

And when it does, it is stunning — standing on the precipice of being something truly special, genre defining.

Duke Nukem Forever is the game that was once thought to be unshippable, and yet here we are, on the precipice of history.

There was no way I was going to survive going straight from Boston to San Francisco so I flew back home after PAX East, stayed there for a few days (working on Precipice of Darkness 4 in the meantime) and then flew up to San Francisco the morning of my post-mortem.

This year, we should be at PAX East showing off Penny Arcade's On the Rain - Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 and I'll be attending GDC for a few days since I've been asked to give a mini post-mortem on our work on the Precipice of Darkness series.

Multiplayer was still a relatively novel concept at the time, but with the growing introduction of modems and internet connections it was Blizzard among a select few that stood on the precipice of what would come to be an integral part of the industry.

UK indie outfit Ninja Theory claims it was on the precipice of studio closure after the release of its PS3 launch title.

Noodlecake Studios is on the precipice of releasing one of its biggest games this year.

Set two years after the cataclysmic events that concluded Bravely Default, we return to Luxendarc on the precipice of momentous change.

I spent most of the game wearing Tyr's armour, stopping to take fashion shots whenever Kratos» arrived on the precipice of a cliff or a new exciting area, places I refuse to spoil.

Now, as their world stands on the precipice of ruin, two young knights summon visions to their side as they strike out on a journey to chase the shadows.

To honor the occasion, publisher 2K's president Christoph Hartmann has a few words: «Duke Nukem Forever is the game that was once thought to be unshippable, and yet here we are, on the precipice of history.

I can't tell you how many times Pandemic has had me and my friends sweating, debating the merits of one move over the other and trying to plan some sort of long - term strategy while we stand on the precipice of destruction.