(n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(2) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(3) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(4) Academisation and a school system on the brink | Letters Read more Perry Beeches has been a favourite of Cameron, as well as former education secretary Michael Gove and his successor Nicky Morgan .
(5) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
(6) The negotiations in Taba, Egypt, in January 2001 were on the brink of agreement but failed because time ran out, with Clinton just out of office, and Ehud Barak facing almost certain electoral defeat to Ariel Sharon.
(7) Standing on the brink of a new decade, Texas physicians have a lot to look forward to.
(8) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(9) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(10) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
(11) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
(12) Not bad for a company which was on the brink of disaster when Jobs returned to it after a 12-year absence in 1997.
(13) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(14) UK unemployment has tumbled to its lowest level since 2008, when the fall of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers brought the global economy to the brink of collapse.
(15) And the timing was unfortunate – just as the last round of US-brokered peace talks was on the brink of collapse – even though the project had begun long before.
(16) This week a ComRes poll for ITV News focusing on Labour’s 40 Scottish seats found that the SNP had a six-point lead, putting Sturgeon’s party on the brink of winning about 28 new seats and close to becoming the third largest party at Westminster.
(17) It seems they want to push us to the brink of Grexit [a Greek exit from the euro], squeeze us to our last drop of blood and breath, in the hope that they can get a little bit more out of us.
(18) "In Russia, there is a drastic gap between rich and poor, to the extent that I feel the country is on the brink of civil war.
(19) The junior doctors and their employers are heading back to the brink : the first all-out 24-hour strike in a generation is now threatened for next Tuesday, with a 48-hour strike planned for a fortnight later, and a third one in February, if the two sides cannot reach agreement on new contracts.
(20) But 10 years of rising prosperity, a health service brought back from the brink, and social norms around women's and minority rights transformed, have not come about by accident.
Rink
Definition:
(n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
(n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former.
(2) Regular rink days are Thursday to Sunday, until 10:30pm.
(3) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
(4) Even one outdoor ice rink in cold-accustomed South Dakota is shutting down.
(5) Alexandra Palace Ice Rink , London N22 ( sadlerswells.com ) , 28-31 October.
(6) There was still no football at Halifax, but the local club opened its ground as a public ice rink and hundreds skated on it."
(7) And yet Sprague remained in awe of her former boss ( despite an acrimonious departure which resulted in her suing the company ), recalling the times his obsessive attention to detail uncovered the misalignment of terraces during the construction of Trump Tower, or drove the renovation of Central Park’s ice rink in 1981.
(8) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
(9) A group of men outside were spraying the street with water from a fire hose in order to create a frozen ice rink that would be too slippery for riot police to attack from.
(10) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
(11) UVM is turning its ice rink into Sno Cones Photograph: University of Vermont Hat tip: AKenyon 6.45pm BST Apartment Therapy said that the Museum of Modern Art is launching a pregnancy tracker app that compares the size of your baby to the size of works in its collection.
(12) A prospective survey has been made of the injuries to members of the public attending a well established ice rink in a major city.
(13) Better rink discipline, instruction classes and safety publicity should be helpful in minimising accidents.
(14) His speech began with a ramble through Manhattan geography, followed by a tutorial on ice skating rinks: “You want rubber hose, and you want water, and in the water you want salt so it doesn’t freeze.” Then he described his idea of New York values: policemen and firefighters; transit workers who “keep those trains and buses going and everything else”; families in Central Park, “some together, some not”.
(15) The opening of an ice rink resulted in 469 attendances at the local Accident and Emergency department over the first year.
(16) The range of injuries sustained at an ice-rink and presented to an Accident Service department is described.
(17) A., Berg, C., Hendrick, J. P., LaBranche-Chabot, H., Metspalu, A., Rinke, J., and Yario, T. (1988) J.
(18) Three ways of minimizing leakage are as follows: (1) Use a less leaky indicator, such as BCECF (Rink et al., 1982); (2) lower the incubation temperature; (3) continuously remove external indicator by perfusion technique (Boron, 1982).
(19) They also suggest, although they do not prove, that the translocation of these cations occurs through an agonist-operated channel as proposed by Hallam and Rink (FEBS Lett.
(20) Dustin Brown grabs, lifts and skates the Cup around the rink - he is the first American born captain to win it twice, both with the Kings, who now have two titles in three seasons.