Sentences with phrase «on the brink of»

Wait until your new business seems to be teetering on the brink of disaster, and then take a week's vacation.

Congress is on brink of tax overhaul.

Just six years ago, Kitimat, B.C., was on the brink of implosion.

Palihapitiya believes the country is on the brink of a massive surge in consumer consumption, but says it won't happen until the underlying payments infrastructure is securely in place.

The blockade has cut food imports to seven million people on the brink of famine.

Joost van Dreunen, CEO of SuperData Research, believes there certainly is a viable business case to be made for providing audio speakers for people who are hard of hearing, because we're on the brink of a demographic shift toward «silver gamers.»

I just heard from yet another company that's on the brink of destruction because they divided 50 - 50, and now the founders can't get along.

Rumors swirled throughout 2016 that Pinterest was on the brink of going public, but its most recent influx of funding means an IPO could be delayed even further.

President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders are on the brink of achieving their top priority, centerpiece tax legislation, but only after a series of inaccurate claims and broken promises.

The partnership unraveled amid circumstances that remain murky and contentious even today, and the company appeared to be doomed as well, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

I get stressed at everything from traffic on the way to work to my current hosting startup on the brink of disaster!

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College seniors who are on the brink of entering the work force are more optimistic about their job prospects if they majored in certain subjects.

Sutton states that Cost Plus World Market, despite the store being on the brink of bankruptcy, hired greeters because it improved sales and decreased theft.

«I don't think we've previously at the [China Development Forum] felt like we were on the brink of a trade war,» he told CNBC.

I'm getting sidetracked already... Back on task: the only explanation here is this gentleman is teetering on the brink of insanity.

Querétaro may be on the brink of making the leap.

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«I was scared and embarrassed — I was on the brink of growing the business to failure,» Carson recalls.

When she returned to her teaching post a year later, she was on the brink of getting tenure.

Rubin was on the brink of raising $ 100 million (# 77 million) from Japanese tech giant SoftBank but the funding fell through due to a conflict of interest with Apple, which has partnered with SoftBank on its $ 100 billion (# 770 million) Vision Fund.

Sometimes this has me scratching my head, and other times I'm in awe of these remarkable young people who are perched on the brink of accomplishing things never done before.

Struggling to survive and on the brink of bankruptcy, the business's bad luck turned around when its key lime bundt cake made the cut for Oprah's Favorite Things list.

And so here we are again — on the brink of another disaster in the wake of plummeting oil prices, rampant OPEC production, and skittish investors.

And it all happened because three years ago the startup was on the brink of bankruptcy, with two months cash in the bank.

When Flanders came on board, Playboy was financially on the brink of extinction.

Speculative media articles like «3D printing could make anyone a gun maker» make it sound like we're on the brink of some 3D - printed gun revolution, where anyone could instantaneously just print out a gun capable of mass destruction.

Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

But not everyone believes that B.C. gaming is on the brink of death.

The state is also suffering a major fiscal crisis that is impacting its budget, pension fund and tax revenue — and the capital city of Hartford is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

Popular among many emerging market investors for the past year, this progress now appears on the brink of becoming undone as market analysts call for a re-evaluation of Russia's risk pricing.

With the news on Thursday that Disney had bought much of 21st Century Fox's entertainment and TV assets for an estimated $ 52.4 billion, the reality that Hollywood is on the brink of a seismic change is starting to hit those in the industry.

The GOP Senate's efforts to repeal Obamacare with its own health care bill have been on the brink of defeat over the past 48 hours.

All of them were sort of on the brink of something big.

The Fed expanded its balance sheet in an effort to resuscitate an economy on the brink of collapse during the crisis.

For a long time, Gilt seemed on the brink of an IPO, but it struggled to reach profitability and started scaling back, closing, or selling parts of its business and laying off employees.

Oliver said: «Honestly, the main takeaway from these two weeks is that, incredibly, we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissist that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities.»

Pandora has been around in one form or another since 1999 and has spent most of its existence on the brink of shutting down.

PERTH - based Medi - tech Research Limited may be on the brink of a major advance in cancer therapy with its hyaluronic acid technology for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Speaking on other issues, he said that Russia was on the brink of making a decision on raising the pension age.

Rumors persist that Grab is on the brink of agreeing to a deal that will see it acquire Uber's Southeast Asia business in exchange for equity, according to Bloomberg.

Finally, I showed that a simple extrapolation of this robust linear trend means that Pharma's IRR will hit 0 % by 2020, which implies that the industry is now on the brink of terminal decline as it enters a vicious cycle of negative growth with diminishing sales and investment into R&D.

A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

In 2008, sales plummeted while the company's stock price dipped to historic lows and critics warned that the company was on the brink of default.

Today, all of Alberta is in Bocock's shoes, on the brink of setting its own energy destiny.

Similarly, many traders wanted to hear our thoughts when the U.S. was on the brink of attacking Syria three weeks ago (click here to read our thoughts on that potential news at the time).

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that MRIS is on the brink of signing a direct feed agreement with Zillow.

Métis author Chelsea Vowel argues for the official protection of Canada's Indigenous languages, which are currently on the brink of extinction

Less than a year into his job, in which he was tasked with turning around a company considered on the brink of bankruptcy, Joly said Best Buy's program had given employees too much independence.

Roughly two years after the company launched its revolutionary WWE Network, Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wingren believes World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) may be on the brink of turning a major corner in terms of earnings.