Each of those times, we were on the verge of complete collapse.

Furthermore, the deliberate measures adopted and implemented by Israel to destroy the already fragile Palestinian economy have pushed the economy to the verge of collapse.

And it made me think. I love studying these moments in American history when there was this frenzy of partisan anger, that the economy was on the verge of total collapse.

She was on the verge of crying.

By focusing on the budget deficit, it is chasing symptoms, not causes. It is putting forward economically and politically impossible recommendations, telling Argentina to cut public services to the extreme, when schools and hospitals are already on the verge of collapse.

We're on the verge of a whole new social science.

Now, I think that we're on the verge of something big.

Other stories are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.

the while you are helplessly watching that he is on the verge of death,

the while you are helplessly watching that he is on the verge of death,

For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction.

So we are on the verge, 2015, of an amazing achievement, the schoolification of the world.

Collapse

I spent 20 years in interviews with African farmers who were on the verge of famine.

We are on the verge of the greatest exploration that the human race has ever known.

NEW YORK The eurozone crisis seems to be reaching its climax, with Greece on the verge of default and an inglorious exit from the monetary union, and now Italy on the verge of losing market access. But the eurozone's problems are much deeper.

The United Nations is not merely on the verge of reform it is already in the process of reform.

The Palestinian people had endured more than it could from the prolonged occupation by Israel, the occupying Power, of its territory, the control, destruction and exploitation by Israel of its natural resources, confiscation of its land, demolition of houses, razing of agricultural land, diversion of water resources, uprooting of productive trees, destruction of the livelihoods of Palestinians, bringing the Palestinian economy to the verge of collapse.

We had deflation during the Depression, but that was collapse of the money supply, collapse of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.

We are on the verge right now to make the first flight of an airplane outside the Earth's atmosphere.

It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

The old bridge is in danger of collapse.

Delegations were on the verge of reaching agreement on the final text, which she was confident would be adopted by consensus.

Many of us have been forging ahead with reforms at full steam and are on the verge of reaching higher levels of income.

We hear a lot about the collapse of cod.

The collapse of state institutions exacerbates the conflict's impact.

The West may collapse very suddenly.

And then the financial collapse happened.

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His regime is bound to collapse.

His regime is bound to collapse.

A half century later, the simultaneous revolts in the Arab world were the result of neither political tendency, instead reflecting broad popular rejection of dysfunctional and corrupt authoritarian governments. But, with Syria immersed in a brutal civil war that has claimed more than 130,000 lives already, Libya on the verge of collapse, and Egypt returning power to the army and proscribing the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia has been the only success.

Thanks to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi s whatever it takes speech, new financial facilities to stabilize distressed sovereign debtors, and the beginning of a banking union, the eurozone is no longer on the verge of collapse. In the US, President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans have for now agreed on a truce to avoid the threat of another government shutdown over the need to raise the debt ceiling.

The answer seems to be Pakistan, a country that the rest of the world views as on the verge of becoming a failed state.

The collapse of moral values and the decline of the family unit.

And it's pushing the ecosystem close to collapse.

These people have been through a lot and none of us, most of all me, helped them when they were on the verge of destroying each other.

The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

It is common knowledge that the United Nations has scored major successes in Sierra Leone and that UNAMSIL is on the verge of completing its withdrawal.

Within a few minutes, she went into cardiac collapse.

And I believe, personally, that we're on the verge and that, with the presence and help of people like you here, we can bring about the prophecy of Isaiah.

Now our Sun will not collapse to a black hole.