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I wish well to any scheme that the board brinks out.
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Brinks is a provider of security services to banks, retailers, governments, mints and jewelers.
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His great speculation, so close to resulting in a spectacular financial as well as scientific success, was on the brink of failure.
Brink's repertoire of work includes epic narrative, re-imagined classics, music theatre and children's theatre.
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Brink's winning time was 4 hours, 2 minutes and 59 seconds.
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Playing hawk too often brings forests on the brink of disaster.
Burdened with high overheads and millions of dollars tied up in inventory, a number of these companies have been brought to the brink of ruin.
Perhaps there is an angler standing besides the great boulder on the brink.
The lake brinks is occupied by privately owned pastures, almost all the way around the lake and is not publicly accessible.
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Brinks spun off its home security division setting the focus as well on cash handling.
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Brink's, a company that prides itself in the safekeeping of money, is nationally embarrassed by what the press is calling the crime of the century.
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At a pessimistic extreme, the city, and not just the urban poor, was claimed to be teetering at the very brink.
On the brink of a new digital era?
Brinks piece is an exception.
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Bioethics on the brink of the new millennium.
A folk-like melody introduced a rustic quality, but there was an ever-present sense of danger, of teetering on the brink - the phrase 'dancing on a volcano' came to mind.
During her management the theatre went from the brink of failure to financial success, her strength of purpose and clarity of vision carrying her through times of crisis.
Now we are on the brink of being able to posit a periodic table of parameters ; once we do this we will revolutionize how we understand the composition of languages.
If it is really intent on taking every issue to the parliamentary brink, we will all suffer.
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Here we are trembling on the brink of the abyss.
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The high cost of diesel has pushed hauliers to the brink.
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We are on the brink of worldwide deflation.
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We have been on the very brink of a crisis.
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There is not much time because the situation is on the brink.
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Firstly, as has been mentioned a number of times today, we are now on the brink of a slow but steady economic downturn.
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The harbour workers and ancillary staff who rely on the white fish fleet for a living are now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
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You mentioned before that we are on the brink of catastrophe there and nothing is being done.
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In my opinion, we were operating on the brink of what is still acceptable.
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I believe that just as we are on the brink of adopting this energy package we must keep in mind three challenges.
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Now the conflict is once again on brink.
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The cold war led to a nuclear arms race that brought the world to the brink of destruction.
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We have drawn back from the brink, and perhaps we can get some advantage out of having been so near to it.
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Perhaps it was a retreat, but it was a very valuable retreat from the brink.
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A little less than a week ago we hovered on the brink for a number of days.
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There is still an opportunity for us to pull back from the brink.
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The occasion to which he refers was one of the times when it was on the brink.
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All reports currently point towards a world on the brink of recession.
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I think that now we are at the brink of that pit that is bottomless.
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I spoke to local business people whose enterprises were brought to the brink of disaster.
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We are on the brink of a major breakthrough.
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On that basis, one wonders what is happening now, when the economy is in stagnation and on the brink of recession.
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I hope that we are on the brink of settling that long-running, unhelpful dispute.
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There has been considerable delay and the company has been pushed to the brink.
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If, however, the retaliation were on a large scale, that would mean that we should be running very close to the brink.
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We are told today that we are on the brink of a clash and that we must be ready.
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We stand on the brink of yesterday and today.
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By the late summer of this year nearly all the necessary steps had been completed or were on the brink of completion.
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He may be on the brink of retirement after 30 or 40 years' service and qualifies for superannuation benefit.
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Now, ten years later, it stands on the brink of county borough status with a population just over 100,000 and still growing.
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He says that the country is on the brink of a housing crisis with a shortfall of 1 million homes.
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There are certain branches of agriculture, at d certain districts, which are just now wobbling on the brink of disaster.
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We are, perhaps, poised on the brink of a possible break-through.
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Many other people are also unconvinced that we are trembling on the brink of economic recovery.
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He has come back from the brink and produced a concessionary scheme.
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I have envisaged the possibility that the solution might push a very few who were near it over the financial brink.
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They were teetering on the brink of nuclear war just weeks ago, and that threat has not gone away.
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I believe that we stand on the brink of a significant step forward and one which we cannot afford to miss.
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We are on the brink of a number of important developments for the future of the public and private sectors of the steel industry.
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He has brought us to the very brink of war.
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The type of full employment we mean is that which, we acknowledge, keeps us on the brink of incipient inflation.
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We need to recognise that all pageantry teeters on a very narrow brink between the impressive and the ridiculous.
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We may be on the brink of finding yet a fourth.
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Our farming industry is now in dire peril, and we are almost on the brink of war.
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We are on the very brink of grave economic disaster.
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At this moment the whole industry, with the exception of a few very strongly capitalised members, is standing on the brink of ruin.
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We have loans by the wealthier countries to those countries who are most near to the brink of the financial and economic precipice.
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We stand on the brink of real opportunities to boost the life chances of local people.
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There are many such communities in my constituency, and they are on the brink of losing the fight for survival.
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In view of the striking power of this submarine, we are nearly on the brink of what could be a final catastrophe.
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We stand on the brink of three-year teacher training.
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Pedestrians who wished to cross stood sardined on the brink.
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From this speech it is obvious that we are on the brink of a very serious situation.
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Why are we on the brink of a trade war?
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In my view two at least have gone over the brink.
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We should not be at the brink of conflict today.
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We are poised on the brink of a challenging new decade.
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I warned that we were on the brink of violence.
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There is no way in which retired people or those on the brink of retirement can adjust to cope with the effects of the provisions.
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We were almost on the brink of it.
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They will not see the horror, because they have never known it, and, like us in 1914, they will plunge over the brink.
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We are on the brink of a pay explosion once again.
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None of them wanted to be the first over the brink; one might even say over the cliff edge.
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Therefore, we are on the brink of a significant potential expansion of the whole forestry enterprise and its related harvesting and processing industries.
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Will it be that the country is again on the brink of bankruptcy?
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Many people lived on the brink of destitution even in the best of years.
Instead, it turned into a wretched failure, bringing the country to the brink of defeat.
More importantly, it has brought the two companies close to the brink of financial disaster.
At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.
On the brink of the crisis, his preoccupation is cricket!
Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms.
Both forcing levels remove the flow from the brink of separation.
Indeed, despite her distrust of men, she is on the brink of falling in love with him.
The same participant felt that his coping efforts were pushed to the brink during the treatment phase.
The recurring bouts of illness made him feel he was continually living on the brink of eternity.
We are on the brink of new successes and advances using genetic technolog y, gene therapies, transplantation, embryonic stem cell research, even human cloning.
The world is on the brink of a terrible war.
Military tensions soon escalated to the brink of a war and reportedly both countries prepared themselves to confront a nuclear attack from the other.
Military tension between the two countries soon intensified substantially, almost to the brink of another major war.
As a woman of questionable morals, she seemed to stand by as her family teetered on the brink of disaster.
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