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"Their unwillingness to compromise is pushing us to the brink of a default on the full faith and credit of the United States, " he said.

In fact, Countrywide had become a leading purveyor of toxic mortgage products that would take the company to the brink of bankruptcy.

A week after going to the brink of war, the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador kissed and made up on television.

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

Queen of Pain could bring him to the brink of death, but she was rune-bound to keep him alive.

Had he failed to put in the hours, he would not have made it past qualifying, let alone to the brink of his first world title.

Several bees quickly browsed the area and noted that the ground was bulging in one portion of the field close to the brink of a cliff.

He realized that drastic measures were required if the Separatists continued to push the galaxy to the brink of war.

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More interesting than the run to the brink of a medal ceremony was the reaction back home in the US.

How to explain the psychology of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the figure of a man?

Investors have seen Washington walk to the brink of a needless financial disaster and talk seriously about whether to jump.

Nuclear recycling would bring South Korea to the brink of being able to make bombs.

This fear-driven avoidance is, Zeleny stated, bringing the time-honored tradition of the political meeting to the brink of extinction.

His incompetence has brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy.

I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish--no hope , no happiness , no vision of a face seen through tears.

It's sad how our effort to promote the survival of our species through copious copulation has run other species to the brink of extinction.

AIG, by losing money and maneuvering their operations to the brink of bankruptcy, was telling us that they were inefficient.

others are rare, having been hunted to the brink of extinction or chivied out of their last natural redoubts by human pressures.

She plays a Japanese tourist who brings one character to the brink of infidelity to his girlfriend.

The speed and ferocity of the Lehman Brothers crisis brought the world to the brink of a meltdown.

Washington's scapegoating of China could take the world to the brink of a very slippery slope.

Cyprus, a midget within the monetary union, has been pushed to the brink of a bail-out.

Pushed to the brink of survival, the Kaminoans perfected cloning technology and practiced selective breeding to keep their species viable.

Climate change alone is expected to force a further 15%- 37% of species to the brink of extinction within the next 50 years.

The firing was accompanied by more tough talk from Pyongyang, which warned Friday the two nations are edging closer to "the brink of war. "

Meanwhile, security and immigration procedures in American airports drive travellers to the brink of rebellion.

Kilimanjaro is surrounded by mountains, live there many mammals, some of them to the brink of extinction or species.

The darkest days once drove him to the brink of suicide, Ren admitted.

Look no further than India and Pakistan, two arch enemies that possess nuclear weapons and occasionally come to the brink of nuclear war.

Its unravelling was swift and disheartening, and brings Thailand back to the brink of further unrest.

For SMEs, this change has led to a credit squeeze, which is pushing many to the brink of bankruptcy.

In Yemen, meanwhile, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has resisted calls to step down, pushing his country to the brink of civil war.

"We hope that we don't see a crisis which pushes the global economy to the brink of ruin, " Glos said.

Invasive species can decrease biodiversity and drive resident species to the brink of extinction.

Politicians have joined hands and completely plundered this country to the brink of destruction.

The owners vanished for good, and countless unemployed workers were driven to the brink of desperation.

His cunning tactics and unerring strategies brought the Empire to the brink of victory five years after the Battle of Endor.

Lu even the hegemony of the past, has become a dominant Luneng's one-man show, and Dalian, had fallen to the brink of relegation .

Had a dream once came to the brink of collapse, many times flying expect the eternal soul.

A UNESCO study warned that targeted violence had brought the university system to the brink of collapse.

But such whaling, paired with high seas expeditions, brought many whales to the brink of extinction.

In most countries unemployment above 10% is seen dangerous, taking societies to the brink of massive protests and riots.

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Lula rode to office on a wave of anti-capitalist rhetoric that panicked investors and brought the country to the brink of default in 2002.

The social uniformity and obsession with rules has often driven me, the Westerner, to the brink of frustration.

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Many short-term lenders declined to renew their loans, driving Bear to the brink of default.

These trends brought the dollar to the brink of some significant levels against the euro, yen and other currencies.

This credit freeze brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.

His unbrokered return would probably be disastrous, taking the country back to the brink of breakdown.

The alternative is the BIS's horror vision: a return to the brink of financial collapse.

Looking back on the past few weeks, Johnnie Levy can see how she was driven to the brink of death and didn't care.

In the mid-1990s the two nuclear-armed states inched to the brink of war over the island.

The economists say the competition drove the otter to the brink of extinction.

The latter can quickly come to the brink of collapse, and often guilty of honest mistake.

Those bad loans drove them to the brink of collapse in 2008, forcing their regulator to take them over.

She is accused, though, of bringing another British institution, the Royal Institution, to the brink of bankruptcy.

Even after they've pushed us to the brink of death, or guided us into places of unimaginable horror.

But five years ago, the undead Scourge invaded Quel 'Thalas and drove the elves to the brink of extinction.

We went to the brink of war with France and. endured the capture of our capital by British forces.

By 1990 black rhinos had been hunted to the brink of extinction in Namibia; now there are more than 1, 400.

Fur hunters once pushed sea otters to the brink of extinction and a century ago only 1, 000 to 2, 000 individuals remained.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers have blamed each other for bringing the government to the brink of partial closure.

and brought the monarchy to the brink of collapse.

Failure to address this dilemma will drive us to the brink of ideology chaos.

This caused the country to slide to the brink of famine.

The root cause of all these trends is the same: a rapacious human economy bringing the world swiftly to the brink of chaos.

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The government brought itself to the brink of fiscal disaster.

He brought the country to the brink of war.

A downturn in the shipping industry in 1986 forced CIMC to the brink of bankruptcy.

His incompetence has brought us to the brink of ruin.

Meanwhile the price of pushing al-Qaeda to the brink of strategic defeat has been to create a new danger.

By the end of 1968, the revolution had brought China to the brink of civil war - Mao ordered the Red Guard to be disbanded

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