Sentences with phrase «verge of collapse»

The shapes of Seven Magic Mountains, reminiscent of naturally - occurring hoodoos, looked like they are on a constant verge of collapsing.
Some companies, particularly those on the verge of collapse, need this kind of leader because they get results, though the results tend to be short term.
Competition for cash has returned with a vengeance, after the Fed stifled it in 2008 to keep the cost of funding for banks to near zero so that they could maximize their profits in order to rebuild their capital after teetering on the verge of collapse.
As the second week of big bank earnings kicks off one technician warns the group could be on the verge of a collapse.
An economy that is increasing its consumption of the most expensive smartphone on the market can hardly be considered on the verge of collapse.
The digital currency movement achieved liftoff at a moment when the global financial system appeared to be on the verge of collapse.
Just as critically, banks were on the verge of collapse, and were bailed out with billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
He engineered the controversial takeovers of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, two banks on the verge of collapse.
But others were sharply critical, insisting the program only blows more air into a housing bubble on the verge of collapse.
President Donald Trump and leading Republicans have portrayed the markets as on the verge of collapse, and have cast their own effort to repeal and replace the Obama health overhaul as a rescue mission.
American Apparel was on the verge of collapse in 2010.
Even though Cliff's business has changed dramatically over the past few years, the market still has this stock priced like it's still that highly indebted iron ore producer on the verge of collapse.
His brother, psychiatrist Richard Summers, recalled how in the weeks before Summers came to the White House, he was on a family vacation in Jamaica, barefoot and in a bathing suit, when he began grilling his children, nieces and nephews on what to do about General Motors, which was on the verge of collapse.
In Kentucky, where the public pension fund is on the verge of collapse, teachers are demanding a State bailout.
I would hazard an educated guess that if Moody's has determined that Chicago is regarded as below investment grade, the stark reality is that Chicago is likely on the verge of collapse barring some likely smoke - filled back room deals cut between Obama and his former puppet - master, Rahm Emanuel (Mayor of Chicago).
But when those trades went bad during the crisis — especially after a wave of mortgage defaults — many of these banks were on the verge of collapsing.
A year ago the scandal ridden PC Government appeared to be on the verge of collapse.
Created four years ago as the country's financial system teetered on the verge of collapse, TARP provided more than 700 banks with a combined $ 205 billion of capital by buying dividend - paying preferred shares.
Perhaps, but that doesn't necessarily mean prices are on the verge of collapse.
With a huge iron ore project in WA on the verge of collapse, Senator Xenophon has called for an inquiry into the iron ore market.
I know people who have been sitting on large sums of money since 2011, because that's when they thought the market was on the verge of collapsing again.
No side escapes morally unscathed from the spiral of escalating norm - violations that ensues, and by the play's climax the British government seems on the verge of collapse.
Getting no answer but finding the frail hermit on the verge of collapse, the king took over the hermit's spade and finished digging his garden.
The US dollar is on the verge of collapse... the government needs to be downsized dramatically.
I think you guys are missing that Rubio was trying to say the age of the earth is an unimportant question to be asking him when the economy is on the verge of collapse
Their boxing division is on the verge of collapse from a roster issue.
Twenty - seven years ago, on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion, Olson let her baby, Matt, cry himself to sleep.
Government support for the bedroom tax looks on the verge of collapse, after Lib Dem president Tim Farron breaks ranks
However, with 200 billion cedis accumulated by the Mahama led administration in the last seven years, the NHIS and all other policies introduced by the NPP have either collapsed or are on the verge of collapsing.
It is not acceptable that the Central Bank, should stand aside, wring its hands in despair and despondency, in a manner that suggests helplessness, while many banks are on the verge of collapse.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate had to act because Obamacare was on the verge of collapse.
They say the provision would lower local taxes, but the legislation is teetering on the verge of collapse ahead of a Thursday night vote in the House of Representatives.
[55] With AIG on the verge of collapse on September 16, 2008, and in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy, Paterson publicly lobbied for a government bailout of the insurance giant [56].
When he took over in July 1988 it was on the verge of collapse.
He said, «We are at the verge of another collapse, if care is not taken.
He said that Nigeria was on the verge of collapse when President Buhari took over from the previous administration led by Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
«A member of the NYPD was murdered, a homeless crisis continues to worsen and our subway system seems to be on the verge of collapse and Mayor de Blasio has been criss - crossing the country pushing his national agenda, and now this.»
Ghanaian highlife duo, Wutah, has dispelled rumours that the group is on the verge of collapse again, just about a year of its reunion.
Weaver quit McCain's campaign last year when it appeared to be on the verge of collapse.
The milestone is an enormous step forward in a partnership that had seemed to be on the verge of collapse over the summer amid the corruption investigation at SUNY Poly that resulted in the arrest of its president, Alain Kaloyeros.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Small upstate New York communities faced with dilapidated wooden pipes rumored to be more than 100 years old need state money to repair water system infrastructure on the verge of collapse, a group of lawmakers said Thursday.
NEDco - VRA at the time also served notice that the company is on the verge of collapse largely due to power theft.
«I know we've made great strides in the last three years, putting systems in place so that the office is not on the verge of collapse, creating a culture where the doctors feel supported,» Grossman said.
In 2008, a formal assessment forecasted that stocks would rebound, but by 2012, they were once again on the verge of collapse.
Reisswig and his colleagues used supercomputers to simulate a supermassive star that is on the verge of collapse.
Two Antarctic ice shelves on the verge of collapsing — the Pine Island Glacier (shown) and the Thwaites Glacier — will cause the ultimate collapse of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a new study shows.
But the team's analysis failed to find any sign that the moas» populations were on the verge of collapse.
Among her other projects, Tarnita is still working on understanding the fairy circles, which may someday allow environmental scientists to tell from satellite imagery if an ecosystem is on the verge of collapsing into a desert (or if it's especially resilient).
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Phrases with «verge of collapse»

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