Sentences with phrase «own precipice»

«It just felt like we'd reached this precipice where nothing was going to happen from here.

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.

Sales had been sliding for several years before plunging off a precipice as the financial crisis deepened into a global recession in 2009.

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.

Closer to home, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average collapsed by a record - breaking 554.26 points, the whole global economy seemed poised on a precipice.

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.

«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.»

A more reasonable review of the evidence suggests that the scenario that conservatives revile — that the nation's economy was on the precipice and the Federal Reserve came to its rescue — is probably not too far from the truth.

As a result, Greece is approaching the precipice.

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.

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

Many investors seem to believe that the cyclical factors that have brought valuations to the current precipice will maintain valuations at a permanently high plateau, or even allow them to advance indefinitely.

I'm on the precipice as well and appreciate hearing the logic behind your investment decision.

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 my view, when politicians and public officials are willing to state the truth about a dire situation in public, it implies that the situation is on the precipice and they want to be disassociated with it — i.e the rats are jumping ship.

Now he's created a precipice of his own.

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.

We both feel that America because of the current political / social climate is on a precipice and likely to topple over at any time.

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.

As Dawkins concedes, even a single unclimbable precipice spoils the theory» although the difficulty in proving that any one precipice is truly unclimbable means that a great many examples will have to be considered.

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.

He inherited a country on the precipice of economic hell and he is called a fascist?

«Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head... but because humanity is devoid of those vital values for its healthy development and real progress,» he wrote.

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.

But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.

Civilization itself stands at a precipice.

I felt like I was standing on a precipice, right on the edge, and looking down I couldn't see the bottom.

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.

When I was near death I saw Theodore Roosevelt in a clown suit walking on a precipice with a small dog.

Cornered on a precipice above the now - burning forest of thorns, the prince has his shield knocked from his hand by the dragon's fiery breath.

But when the hoped - for disarmament did not materialize — and as Europe seemed to rush toward the precipice — the magazine took refuge in neutralist sentiment.

Now he has sent me back into the fires and I walk once again on the very precipice you so accurately describe.

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.

Like many of the children, she's alert to times when other children are too fragile to sustain the give - and - take of repartee; and when, as often happens at the after - school, one of the younger children suddenly begins to cry, or seems to be right at the precipice of tears, she switches gears almost immediately.

At the outset of Jesus» ministry, the crowd at Nazareth wanted to push him off a precipice.

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.»

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.

This does not mean that the reader lives on the precipice all the time, for no one maintains psychologically such an intensive personal involvement.

The art requires both study and personal mentioning.27 The guide who proposes to take the flock through steep places, precipices, or hazardous situations must be fittingly prepared both conceptually and experientially.

This is why rigorous preparation for pastoral counsel is necessary: «We would not have [those] who stumble on plain ground set their feet on a precipice.

Harvey Brooks suggests that living with technology is like climbing a mountain which narrows to a knife - edge as the top is reached.27 Each step takes us higher, but the precipices on either side become steeper.

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We are all equal before G - d — we the blind vagabonds treading desperately on the narrow path besides the precipice of eternity.