In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime. |
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On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration. |
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Through shifting openings in the clouds of dust they could see that it was rungless in places, rickety, tottering. |
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It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left. |
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We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in in procession. |
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Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin. |
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A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair. |
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Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river. |
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Just then, the door flew open and Mara, ashen-faced and tottering came out, closely followed by a radiant Rakael. |
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I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man. |
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It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction. |
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The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat. |
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It resembled a rectangular crown, a small tottering tower of points and bars rising from the camel's back. |
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After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice. |
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In recent years China has supported the tottering North Korean regime, providing food provisions, oil, strategic supplies and economic aid. |
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The financial success was achieved, however, on the back of a tottering pyramid of contract labour, often unskilled. |
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When her side was tottering on the brink of defeat it was her powers of persuasion which lifted them that one vital step. |
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France's socio-economic structure has been tottering since the last quarter of 2008, and social plans in enterprises have multiplied. |
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As many animals that share our world demonstrate, you don't have to be a tottering biped with a daft flat face and rubbish teeth to be smart. |
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His veteran centre-right rivals are tottering and the young guns are inspiring half-hearted grunts of support at best. |
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The euro zone is tottering, America's deficit is alarming and inflation is looming, they reckon. |
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As we reported in the newspaper this past week, the Social Security disability insurance system is tottering. |
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American intellectuals en masse declared their cities to be tottering on the brink of doom. |
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Germany has very good cards except for one, its banks, which own a lot of sovereign bonds of tottering Euroland members. |
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Humour is out there, tottering around trying to cope with life's set-backs. |
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It's no exaggeration to say that humanity is currently tottering on the brink of a climate catastrophe. |
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The business world has galloped on ahead, but the EU's citizens are still tottering along behind integration. |
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Should we imagine a lot of annoyed octogenarians tottering around? |
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It tore Guy away from Jacqueline, leaving her tottering on the brink of fear. |
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The bankrupt ones are outlined in red, while the tottering ones have orange outlines. |
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The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces. |
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He is vividly, fearfully aware of how much worse things might get than the rotten, tottering system he upholds. |
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Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele. |
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The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself. |
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The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster. |
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Bags had grown to this enormous monstrosity, wildly unfunctional, akin to tottering around on seven-inch heels. |
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And in all the rest of the world, half a dozen old men, if so many, tottering toward their graves. |
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Egypt is tottering between rule by Islamists and the military. |
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Yet the argument that NATO must expand rapidly to save tottering Eastern European democracies was and is far from compelling. |
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Though the appearance of her subjects is developed, somewhat in the midst of becoming more human and less caricatural, their expressions are identical: sad, broken, amorphous, tottering from boredom. |
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In 1798, a little over two centuries ago, Napoleon's general removed the then Pope from his throne in Rome, confiscated the church's properties, and left the tottering Holy Roman Empire in ruins. |
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Nathan was one of the tiniest, tottering along, holding on to the hand of a much older girl. Nat. Small like a gnat. |
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Even as other countries continue to grapple with the consequences of the worldwide recession, some even tottering on the edge of financial bankruptcy, our country has led all major developed nations in turning the corner. |
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Did he see me as a harmless old buffer in a gorblimey hat, tottering on the brink of certifiable senility? |
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He began his work as assistant general secretary in the early months of 1974 when the Heath government was tottering under the pressures of a miners' strike, the oil crisis and economic turbulence. |
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A mounting recession and unemployment also took their toll, but with Labour still tottering in power, many union leaders did not want to recognise that they were in for a rude awakenning. |
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The hotel, a lovely ochre house tottering under the weight of flowers and nestled therein, as its archways, patios and canopies answer to the beckon of the sea and reverie. |
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After Pretinha's second half equaliser, the smart money was on Brazil to clinch victory over the tottering Americans, only for Cristiane and Pretinha to see shots come back off the upright. |
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The master paceth up and down his halls, And in the empty hours Can hear the tottering of his towers And tremor of their bases underground. |
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He now has a decent economics team, and he personally unblocked a tottering deal between the state-owned energy company, Pertamina, and America's Exxon by replacing Pertamina's top management. |
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Like a convalescent whose crutches have just been removed, the US real estate market is tottering about on unsteady feet and no one knows how quickly it will regain its strength. |
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The whole system of religious principles and doctrines, which should form the foundation and framework of social life, seems to be a tottering mass, ready to fall to ruin. |
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Although stockmarkets rallied and volatility subsided, a number of banks had been left tottering by the credit crunch and needed to be bailed out, thereby worsening the financial situation of certain governments. |
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The neurological examinations failed to explain the situation, but for several months, she was hardly able to walk, tottering with a walker and always accompanied by a young nurse's aid who supported her by the elbow. |
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Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop. |
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What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared. |
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When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy...was already tottering to its fall. |
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He studied under the tottering academic regime of Socialist Realism, which lingers in his work's frequent suggestions of foul utopias peopled by smooth-browed heroes, laced with Surrealist uncanniness, and given Pop éclat. |
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