| Melissa in a game of brinkmanship accused Zork of infidelity which enraged him. |
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| But there's a strange niggling as we enter into this new era of musical brinkmanship. |
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| My intervention came in the nick of time, and tested the very limits of his fistfight brinkmanship. |
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| As everyone knows, Tinseltown is all about the lawsuits and the brinkmanship of the helmers and studio heads, and who blinks first. |
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| In an escalating situation neither side has much of a reputation for brinkmanship. |
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| For such a normally quick tempered and impatient people they have shown themselves adepts at procrastination and brinkmanship. |
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| But fans of political intrigue at the highest levels of brinkmanship will likely be happy with this film. |
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| The ancient British art of industrial brinkmanship is risky for managements and unions that try to force each other to blink first. |
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| I mean, if they're playing brinkmanship, I think they're playing with the wrong guy. |
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| But in working out his political strategy, he played a dangerous game of political brinkmanship. |
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| It is a desperate act of brinkmanship from Barak, a soldier turned politician, who finds himself backed into a corner. |
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| Its current brinkmanship is the work of a regime in which moderates have little room left to maneuver. |
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| The North should rid itself of the illusion that brinkmanship will be effective. |
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| On the most burning issue, the nuclear track, we still believe that engagement is far preferable to brinkmanship, confrontation and isolation. |
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| Sifting information from misinformation is a mug's game when both sides in a negotiation are engaged in brinkmanship. |
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| It was his former government, the Conservative government, that was leading us to brinkmanship. |
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| However, progress should be a matter of commitment rather than brinkmanship. |
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| It is very difficult not to get emotional over the precarious brinkmanship occurring at this very moment in Ukraine. |
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| A bit of hot rhetoric and brinkmanship ends in a deal between the federal government and two Atlantic provinces. |
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| The Commission perhaps reacted somewhat hastily in the wake of the BSE crisis, and now we are into brinkmanship again. |
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| While western brinkmanship clearly has been counter-productive, no approach has worked in influencing the inner circle of leadership in Zimbabwe. |
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| Both sides are wary of yet another round of brinkmanship and Galston puts the odds of another shutdown at zero. |
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| In the last few days, investors have opened the Washington brinkmanship Playbook. |
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| Yet, it is exactly this brinkmanship that has enabled the Iranian nuclear advances that the authors lament. |
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| The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides. |
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| The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was sandbagged by the October government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinkmanship. |
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| But this game of political brinkmanship has already gone too far. |
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| The appeasement policies encouraged Hitler, the master of brinkmanship. |
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| Wherever you mark the start of the crisis, brinkmanship led to war. |
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| But the cold reality is that brinkmanship always favoured the creditors. |
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| Still, this narrow victory showed the limits to Republican brinkmanship. |
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| Critical to peace in South Asia is the evolving political and strategic order in the region, in which a key determinant is Indo-Pakistan relations.2 Both India and Pakistan are engaged in a dangerous form of brinkmanship. |
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| The diplomat accused the other nation's leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations' shared border. |
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| Isn't this just more parliamentary brinkmanship? |
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| The Cuban missile crisis was one those times of brinkmanship. |
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| Can we move forward and consolidate this unprecedented era of peace, stability and prosperity, or will it melt before our eyes and be replaced by a new national rivalry and brinkmanship? |
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| The chances of the euro zone being smashed apart have risen alarmingly, thanks to financial panic, a rapidly weakening economic outlook and pigheaded brinkmanship. |
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| The disregard of every agreement by inserting the additional statement, whereby recognition is rigorously, but surreptitiously refused, and the toothless new compromise, amount, in many respects, to brinkmanship. |
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| Hyde responded with an impressive display of political brinkmanship, teaming up with the chair of the House Armed Services Committee20 and using the levers of congressional influencehearings, reports and the media. |
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| Why would the government have allowed the brinkmanship to escalate to this level before bringing these two parties together to find a resolution that might have avoided the situation in which we now find ourselves? |
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| The brinkmanship and confrontation between the Maoists and the Government, accompanied by a sharp and dangerous hardening of positions, is making a negotiated solution significantly more difficult. |
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| This process is made all the more difficult by a region-wide tendency to see serious confrontation, brinkmanship and crisis as norms of political life. |
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| Backing for Yanis Varoufakis, the controversial finance minister most associated with the reckless brinkmanship that has alienated Athens from its euro-area partners, is also high. |
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| Fly and Kroenig want us to continue the reckless game of brinkmanship. |
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| From Ukraine to Greece, events have led the continent from the frying pan to the fire and back again, with all of the attendant summitry, declarations, and brinkmanship. |
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