Sentences with phrase «people over the brink»

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Everyone knew what was coming, that's why they were there, and as such the merest hint towards it was rapturously received, like a couple of hundred people were teetering on the brink, ready for the undoing of a button to tip them over the edge.

Where Genesis describes the creation of people, living creatures and birds flying over the land, Jeremiah sees a barren landscape on the brink of destruction.

In Africa alone, over a hun - dred million people are facing food insecurity with some on the brink of fam - through entities in coun - tries on the EU's common list.