Sentences with phrase «over the brink»

Did we alone drive the giant birds over the brink, or were they already on their way out thanks to disease and volcanic eruptions?

That alone could push many dogs over the brink.

Once extracted, much of this oil will be burned, pushing global temperature limits over the brink.

It is as though characters who have slipped over the brink of ruin need a web of words, a net of stunning illusions, to break their fall.

We are peering over the brink into a different world to the one we have known.

Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid,» he told the BBC.

Oil markets could quickly settle down before pushing Europe over the brink and denting the renewed American love affair with Detroit's SUVs.

We throw the last of our wood on the fire, and when it is burningbrightly kick the flaming brands over the brink... flashes of red on the canyonwalls, the silver snow and for one instant the sparkle of the river.

I think it is the nature of modern top flight football that these athletes» bodies are being pushed up to and over the brink as a matter of course.

However, the notion that Pakistan «may well tip over the brink» (p. 211) if it comes under another quasi-military is debatable, if history is any guide.

«There the markets looked over the brink when the mad - cap Republican right in Congress would not compromise with the President.

The sense that we have not yet gone over that brink — not quite — is what motivates us to our ablutions, our donations, our recycling, our hope.

It's a gutting film and a heart wrenching performance, one that gets to the core of what happens to families that live paycheck to paycheck and teeter over the brink of poverty, in danger of tumbling into the abyss with even the slightest provocation.

In the final stages the Tribune reported a death a week: pipefitters down the elevator shaft, electricians over the brink.

It largely destroys Amazons advantage over brinks and mortar stores.

The country was already facing incredible challenges — from a dictatorship to unsustainable land use practices to economic mismanagement — but a severe drought, made worse by climate change, was almost certainly a factor in pushing people over the brink.

Indeed, at one point Lovelock predicts — more gloomily than any other comnpetent observer I am aware of — that we have already pushed the planet over the brink, and that we will soon see remarably rapid rises in temperature, well beyond those envisioned in most of the computer models now in use — themselves quite dire.

This would be an entertaining and educational spectacle to watch from a safe vantage point on another planet, but the responsible thing for those of us who live here to do, of course, is to stop the fossil fuel emissions that are currently levering this boulder over the brink.

Just as Reagan's «all - in» defence strategy helped push an already financially burdened USSR over the brink, experts want the West to divert hundreds of billions of dollars from where they are needed towards projects that may (might, could, perhaps) avert a climatic Armageddon.

The prime minister doodled love letters to his girlfriend as the cabinet discussed Ireland, and European civilisation tottered over the brink.

Before the last election David Cameron trumpeted that Labour's commitment to halve the budget deficit would take Britain «over the brink into bankruptcy».

When the world goes to hell, you can be certain that the Christian fundamentalists will be the ones who pushed us over the brink.

Spending cuts will continue for many more years to come David Cameron said today as he warned that public debt risks pushing Britain «over the brink».

If we don't get debt levels down over time, the subsequent crisis could take us over the brink.»

It is over the brink — over several brinks — and has been for some time.

Her enchanting disposition has already helped her weather other of life's storms, but Daniel's autism may just push her over the brink, destroying her resolute optimism and bringing her unsteady marriage to an inglorious end.

Her enchanting disposition has already helped her weather other life storms, but Daniel's autism may just push her over the brink, destroying her resolute optimism and bringing her unsteady marriage to an inglorious end.

I think you've pushed me over the brink of indecision.

The mortgage was a huge stretch from the get - go, and all it took was a job loss or some other life change to push it over the brink.

2) Hawking is hawking bullshit on the UN Paris Pact: Trump can not push Earth «over the brink» because UN Paris pact did nothing for climate.