Though there was enough food and water on board to sustain her, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown and wouldn't eat. |
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If you read this article, you'd assume that Russia was on the verge of ratifying the Kyoto protocol. |
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It was no irony that even as the pamphlets were being distributed, Congressmen were on the verge of coming to blows. |
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Balancing on the verge with traffic whizzing past close behind me was hair raising. |
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They line the grass verge along the roadside, proudly displaying flags and banners. |
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I actually found myself on the verge of boycotting the playoffs because of the refs. |
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You wouldn't have thought these teams are on the verge of a World Cup semi-final. |
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No additional excavation works were undertaken and no verge crossing was made. |
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Hence there's no shortage of scientists and economists who now adventurously proclaim we are on the verge of a new creation. |
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The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business. |
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This herb grows in every grassy verge, preferably on the path, just like plantain or waybread, with which it shares most of its uses. |
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We all know that we have a great team this year, and we are on the verge of accomplishing something very special. |
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Knowing he is on the verge of the Claret Jug, Levet sends his tee shot wide right, and then badly bunkers his second. |
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He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise. |
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Nervous in the extreme, his voice quavered as he gave commands to his pupil, often so haltingly that he seemed nearly on the verge of choking. |
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The finale, which, like the second movement, proceeds without pause, begins restively and roils like a volcano on the verge of eruption. |
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It does not make sense that animals that are on the verge of extinction are caught because of a minority of epicures. |
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In fact, the black community is on the verge of becoming much more politically splintered. |
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A new report reveals that Tanzania's population of dugongs is on the verge of collapse as a result of accidental entanglement in gill nets. |
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It seemed the werewolf was on the verge of talking, but all that escaped its throat was a guttural growl. |
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Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed. |
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I was beaming on the inside with happiness, on the verge of giddiness, as the clock ran down. |
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I can't stop myself, and I hear my voice straining, on the verge of cracking, but I can't stop that either. |
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On the verge of tears, his victory speech was a model of Churchillian conciliation. |
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Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out. |
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Serious instances had emerged where indigents were on the verge of losing their houses and the city council had to act. |
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A former Rossendale town centre bank that has stood empty for nine years is on the verge of reopening as an aquatic centre. |
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When this song came out, most everyone listened to it on the verge of laughter. |
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He went off to a hydropathic centre, but by May his health appeared to be on the verge of serious breakdown. |
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A good example is the typical late eighteenth-century verge watch attached to a nineteenth-century chatelaine. |
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Hidatsa, like many languages, is on the verge of vanishing and taking with it crucial linguistic and cultural data. |
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It distressed us to be cataloguing the last mortal remains of so many species that are on the verge of extinction, or have gone forever. |
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Even if I don't sink into oblivion, drifting near the verge allows my subconscious to bubble up and provide answers. |
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Much heart-searching, often on the verge of tears, has gone into the writing of this chapter. |
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Most prime ministers verge on the psychopathic in their desire to stay in power or at the very least destroy the chances of the next in line. |
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After a little way the road opens out and there's a grass verge you can walk on. |
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Police were bemused when they found the bunny, which they dubbed Hoppy, on a roadside verge in Manchester and decided to take him into custody. |
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Most of the traditional handicrafts of the country have been neglected for a long time and are on the verge of extinction. |
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Their use is believed to have pushed the numbers of porpoises, also bottom feeders, in areas such as the Baltic Sea, to the verge of extinction. |
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After much discussion, and me on the verge of coming unglued, the original route was agreed upon. |
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Along the eastern margin of the nappe folds verge to the east and the cleavage fans until it dips westward. |
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Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side. |
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In 1860, on the verge of war, four million black slaves were held in bondage across the South. |
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When it was named the state bird in the late 1950s, the Hawaiian goose was on the verge of extinction. |
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I have known people on the verge of surgery for cancer or bypass surgery who have been declared healed by their unbelieving doctors. |
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There is no central verge, though pedestrian and vehicular traffic are heavy especially during evenings. |
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The battle came as the Northern Federal government led by Abraham Lincoln was on the verge of defeat. |
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A 50 break with four colours left put Hunter on the verge of victory but he muffed his chance. |
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The road-bridge and Victorian pedestrian footbridge are completely neglected and the canal and its verge are litter strewn. |
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It is too early to say for certain whether we are on the verge of a major breakthrough. |
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As a result, many of the actors scream their lines as if they're on the verge of hysterics. |
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Toward the end of the first day of the battle, the Rebels overran the Federal lines and were on the verge of victory. |
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They may be on the verge of an appointment but there's no sign of an announcement as yet. |
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As for this area being a beauty spot, it is just a roadside verge, nor more, no less. |
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A big, rumbling beat joins with a wobbly bass line so overdriven it sounds on the verge of collapse. |
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At a verge on the North Street elevation, the battening to support the tiles had been cut short. |
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There appears to be no restrictions on who uses the road, the road median strip, road verge or any part of the road corridor. |
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And Andy Cole is on the verge of joining Manchester City, which scuppers any prospect of him returning to Ewood this summer. |
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The athlete will be training very hard and is probably right on the verge of overtraining. |
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I have two teenage boys, one of whom is 16 years old, on the verge of passing his driver's test, and starting a part-time job. |
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These films are very hokey, more so than normal horror films, very easily parodied, and at least one of the stories tends to verge on comedy. |
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She's on the verge of throwing them out when Hunter comes over and leads them out of the restaurant, chiliburgers in hand. |
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It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut. |
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My voice is loud, but also rather high-pitched, and on the verge of cracking with all of the emotion surging within me. |
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His delivery was choppy, halting now and then, as if he were choking up, on the verge of tears. |
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If we were all veggies animals such as the cow, pig, and sheep would probably be on the verge of extinction. |
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About 30 boulders have been mounted on the grass verge in Wilcot Avenue to stop motorists churning up the ground. |
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I've never seen a make up lady on the verge of tears before but my puffed out peaky face was a challenge too far. |
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The complex of ranch buildings spreads across a grassy verge above a tumbling creek. |
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The country appears to be on the verge of becoming a failed state ruled by roaming warlords. |
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By the time he made it there, he was absolutely exhausted and on the verge of a mental collapse. |
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Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse. |
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During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe. |
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If they didn't buy all those fancy things, they wouldn't find themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. |
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And on the verge of conquering radio and selling nearly a million copies of that record, they kept their promise. |
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They have written to the Clifton council house tenant and told her that taking her vehicle across the verge into her garden was against the law. |
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Mr Hocaniuk, 24, broke hard and steered to avoid the collision, ending up on a grass verge by the side of the road. |
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If they are off the road, for example on a grass verge, the district council then has to be notified. |
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It may well be that some taxpayers are being discouraged from filling in forms simply because these forms verge on the incomprehensible. |
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The Escort was being driven south along the 30 mph stretch, when it mounted a grass verge alongside the road. |
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Officials at City Hall are convinced that after decades of stagnation, the city's moribund downtown core is on the verge of a breakthrough. |
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I climbed over the safety barrier and sat on the grassy, hilly verge to wait. |
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The poor condition of that tiling and the defective mortar to the verge tiling generally warranted further investigation, in Mr Bruce's opinion. |
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Though she had put on a brave front, he could see her eyes on the verge of tears. |
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In England the cavalier, once thought to be on the verge of extinction, is the most popular toy breed. |
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Not all Mosteller's Bayesian suspicions, some of which verge on cynicism, have proved well founded. |
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When he is on the verge of lunacy and death, Hester proposes to him that they shall flee to Europe, and for a moment he dallies with the idea. |
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He would be seen carting home university prospectuses and claimed he was on the verge of being accepted to one of the top colleges. |
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Only if society is on the verge of collapse can a communist revolution succeed. |
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It was a desperate attempt to save his marriage, which was on the verge of breaking up. |
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From each point of contact, rolling wheel tracks through the grass on the verge identify the subsequent course of travel. |
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Sometimes, diplomats might be representing a country that is almost on the verge of war with the host country. |
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We're assuming that, on the verge of success, the organisation have done the only sensible thing and disbanded. |
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When fighting out an epic duel with Courier in the Australian Open a few years ago Sampras appeared on the verge of collapse from cramp. |
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Since Dutch elm disease destroyed the elm 30 years ago, the large tortoiseshell butterfly has tottered on the verge of extinction. |
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However the invention of the verge escapement in Europe in the 14th century led to a revolution in mechanical clocks. |
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As we may well be on the verge of an explosion in metals prices, you should be making your investments accordingly. |
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The Angels and Dodgers, in fact, are on the verge of setting a record this year for the most combined attendance in one market. |
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Most were on a grass verge behind double yellow lines and were illegally parked. |
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The indiscriminate use of the pond water by residents in the area has pushed it to the verge of dryness. |
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The ball was on the verge of going out of play, so the angle was rather narrow. |
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He approached companies who were on the verge of bankruptcy before he bought them. |
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What began as a steady walk by day's end was on the verge of turning into a run. |
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Since attention has been drawn to dog fouling there has been no dog mess in the verge. |
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With this truancy law at their disposal, teens and pre-teens are on the verge of absolute power. |
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I did not bother to look at the beautiful details and decoration, I was so angry and on the verge of tears. |
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But his centuries-old livelihood is on the verge of collapse since the areca nut price has crashed beyond imagination. |
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At this point, Williams was on verge of giving up acting and following the rest of her family into law. |
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She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown. |
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Health bosses are believed to be on the verge of producing a new document outlining the fate of Ilkley's Coronation Hospital. |
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We're just at the verge of starting to really understand from the molecular level to the systems level how the brain works. |
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On the verge of a workaholic meltdown, Bella's doctor advises her to go to the Caribbean for a month. |
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The majority of rolling stock was hideously dated and on the verge of collapse. |
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There were at least three hundred souls in the town who had been on the verge of starvation. |
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A repeat accident was on the verge and her upper arm throbbed violently and warningly. |
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An extremely competent golfer, Alf was on the verge of turning professional at one time. |
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The vehicle has struck the nearside verge with force causing it to roll over several times. |
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Now, he seemed almost on the verge of tears, though Reana could only guess why. |
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It was held that the conduct of the Secretary of State was so unreasonable as to verge on the irrational and absurd. |
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We are instead on the verge of spectacular advances in many fields that will likely be energy conserving into the bargain. |
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Fuel cell vehicles, on the other hand, are on the verge of commercialization, with manufacturers keen on mass-producing them within five years. |
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She is a tall scrag of a woman, crouched in profile, alone on a steep verge above the relentless Florida traffic. |
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They decided to change the topic a little as I was chewing on some uneatable cabbage, on the verge of puking it all out. |
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The financial crisis has now left many of these banks on the verge of insolvency with large portfolios of insecure loans and bad debts. |
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Can I tell you, though, what else we saw were people who were on the verge of dying. |
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By the late 1960s many believed the disease was on the verge of extinction. |
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Conditions are so bleak in so many areas we seem on the verge of a social emergency. |
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Originally a trio called Cub, the brave lads backed out on the verge of being signed. |
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But the species is dwindling fast and is feared on the verge of extinction. |
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The dog, nicknamed John, appeared on the grass verge by the side of the road in the main street through the village. |
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At 23, he is on the verge of completing a degree in history, politics and social studies. |
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In all the industrialised countries the welfare state is on the verge of collapse. |
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So, as Lara took guard, England were on the verge of the unthinkable, the first clean sweep of a series in the Caribbean by any visiting team. |
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Our testing in Denver makes me believe we're on the verge of breaking through. |
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The saloon-keeper, unless he is also an alderman, is apt to be in debt to the big brewers, and on the verge of being sold out. |
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On the verge of his big break, Austin is house-sitting his mother's home in LA when Lee rolls up out of the desert like a bad mirage. |
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If full, then verge south of start, lots down at Bonfield Gill half a mile from start. |
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The linear grass verge along the village has some attractive planting but many stretches are in need of cultivation. |
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At times they verge on the gothic, with subjects including paedophilia, murder, incest and violence to name but a few sins. |
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Well, everything is reparable but I do think we've been on the verge of being somewhat naive about the former Soviet Union and its leadership. |
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Yes, I was on the verge of lunacy, but it was only temporary. |
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Commercially important stocks for our fishermen will decline and more stocks will risk being on the verge of collapse. |
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Let us be alert to the cries of alarm rising up from societies on the verge of despair. |
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The Romney campaign appears on the verge of pivoting and re-embracing the candidate's most important achievement as governor. |
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And then she turned to her friend, who seemed on the verge of collapsing. |
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At the time of the merger, Nissan was on the verge of bankruptcy. |
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A lot of the buildings were damaged or were on the verge of collapsing. |
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My voice has got so loud that it is on the verge of breaking. |
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The girl began to whimper again, and looked on the verge of tears. |
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Danna looked on the verge of tears as she nodded and tried to smile. |
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It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over. |
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If somebody tells me that they're on the verge of arresting me, my response would be, I haven't done anything to be arrested for, not, they don't have anything on me. |
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I must admit that it is really hard, and I have almost been on the verge of putting one of the lovely little cancer sticks to my lips and light up. |
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The car overtook as it approached a blind bend and the oncoming car on the other side of the road had to swerve on to the verge to avoid a collision. |
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Instead, though, I'll hang on to it, and use it as a warning to myself every time I'm on the verge of writing something in the heat of the moment. |
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As the women made their protest, motorists began inching up the grass verge to get past their horseboxes, or made a series of tight manoeuvres to turn away. |
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His eyes were cloudy, tears on the verge of falling down his aged face. |
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Dad's house isn't a crack house or on the verge of falling apart. |
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Minutes later, they thought they were on the verge of the biggest pay day of their lives, perhaps dreaming of bundles of crisp notes in the post office beneath them. |
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The ingenious contrivance for this purpose consisted of a crown wheel, rotated by the falling weight, whose teeth drove the pallets of a verge backwards and forwards. |
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Looking from above, the Uffington White Horse is frozen as it has been for thousands of years, on the verge of crushing you with its front hooves. |
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Ministers fear fuel supplies are on the verge of widespread disruption and have drawn up plans to deploy troops to guard refineries and introduce petrol rationing. |
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Graduation without money troublesYou are on the verge of graduating, have no time for a side job and don't receive BAföG any more? |
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Any neutral observer could be led to believe Scotland is on the verge of societal disintegration, yet nothing could be further from the truth. |
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There are, obviously, no gimmes in mini-golf for the sport would verge on the ridiculous if players stood on the tee debating whether each other's tee shots might be given. |
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He described his terror and seemed on the verge of throwing a fit in my house. |
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The army, on the verge of breaking up, had to give in to his government as the last hope for stemming the popular insurgence. |
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However, there is an innate finesse and elegance to this wine, that save it from a superlativeness that could verge on heaviness. |
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Men may refuse the challenge of trying to right a ship on the verge of capsize, preferring to wait for an easier test. |
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Rising as high as 100 feet they catch movement in the air and give forth vibrations that verge on silence: the gentlest of music. |
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More significantly, laws that govern how firms can raise money are on the verge of a profound revision. First, the exchange snafu. |
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After several days of torrential rainfalls, several barrier lakes near Chiufenerh Mountain in Nantou County were yesterday on the verge of collapse. |
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By that time, the radios had announced several cases of illegal immigrants shipwrecks», Mrs Samb told us on the verge of tears. |
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Serge Lamontagne, on the verge of tears, came to the meeting to bid farewell to the borough council. |
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At times they are serene, witty and loquacious, at times they are on the verge of tears. |
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Since young people are the most fanatic texters, doctors worry that they're on the verge of a new tenosynovitis outbreak. |
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In this painting, joy, rapture, release, and escape are all terms that become important, even if their value is always of the verge of becoming equivocal. |
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With their precise lines and spare style, his animated, lively drawings verge on comic strips. |
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In general, staff should not implicate UNHCR in any way by frequenting locations or undertaking activities that verge on illegality. |
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The suspension's settings verge on perfection, with nice stiffness and constant support in corners ensuring excellent stability. |
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Although these metaphors may verge on tacky, the dedication each of these artists bring to their work could easily be considered religious. |
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Cattle feeders are on the verge of going bankrupt, and all their suppliers are in deep trouble right now. |
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The verge is cluttered with market stalls, swarms of old men, women enshrouded in their burkas, and children begging for chocolate. |
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These initiatives rescued the economic and financial systems which, barely 9 months previously, were on the verge of collapse. |
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Many important financial institutions in the U. S. and Europe were on the verge of collapse and were bailed out by their respective governments. |
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We have a huge beef industry that is on the verge of collapse if we do not get some cooperation from the Americans. |
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National economies were bankrupt, civil society fragile or nonexistent and social services on the verge of collapse. |
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Today, several important fish stocks, such as cod, are on the verge of collapse. |
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Secondly, it was said during the meeting that the Darfur Peace Agreement was on the verge of collapse. |
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Now we are on the verge of this exciting moment to produce a safe vaccine for desensitization of mold-allergic patients. |
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And now, a bearish cross on the daily chart was formed, suggesting that the pair is on the verge of a downtrend. |
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Back in the nineteen-eighties, Anvil was, if not huge, on the verge of hugeness. |
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So she demanded and apparently gained an immediate audience. Some plaudits verge on sycophancy. |
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By the 1980s, Latvian language and culture were on the verge of extinction, and some drastic measures were needed to galvanise them after independence. |
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M and P insects should group on the verge of your bubble of aggro, bore their top and you will have an attractive ball. |
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The fab Four swam up out of the developing bath, youngsters again on the verge of everything. |
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Again on September 5 last year, on the verge of the last election, the minister held another photo op and forgot to bring his wallet. |
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In 1963 the plant was in the doldrums and on the verge of being taken over by its principal creditor, Hispano-Suiza. |
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In 1993 we inherited the fact that we were on the verge of becoming a basket case before the other nations of this world. |
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The trailer swerved into the ditch, and the package tipped over and got partially stuck in the loose soil of the verge. |
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My country undertook an historic initiative when it voluntarily ceased production of the nuclear bomb it was on the verge of producing. |
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I've been watching over the years and they're on the verge of going into a moratorium the same as we did. |
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After the violence resulting from the referendum in 1999, the education system was in disarray and on the verge of collapse. |
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On the verge of the inevitable crucifixion, left alone in the garden, Jesus passed through intense pain and anguish. |
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At times the sepulchral pacing and stilted interactions verge on the genteel. |
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But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence. |
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He looked at Gabriel, who almost seemed on the verge of tears. |
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All joking aside, what was once considered an expensive gimmick is on the verge of going mainstream. |
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But to his brothers his dreams appear to verge on megalomania. |
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There had been codebreakers before these two, but their work was on the verge of a technological revolution that is still going on today. |
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All of this is propelled by a staggering rhythm that sounds like it's on the verge of packing up. |
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The assessment must be different for the decision to invest nearly EUR 100 million in a company on the verge of bankruptcy. |
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In addition they point out that ABX is on the verge of being privatised and that the work done to this end should not be undone. |
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Some economies are on the verge of bankruptcy, while others expand with little thought to environmental constraints. |
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Innovative products and improved system solutions have either been launched or are on the verge of being launched. |
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It worries me that world coffee institutions have already lost one opportunity and are on the verge of losing another. |
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Often on the verge of bankruptcy, trading companies hired as few soldiers as possible. |
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Shirley's breathing became so distorted that by the time he faded to just six breaths per minute and then lost consciousness, Shirley was also on the verge of blacking out. |
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Her perfection can sometimes verge on pedantic, like with her conversion to veganism. |
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But there are still question marks over the future of populations of other species, including blue whales and bowhead whales, both hunted to the verge of extinction. |
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He was hit over the head with a blunt implement and was found unconscious, suffering from a fractured skull, minutes later lying on a grass verge. |
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The crowd at the midnight showing of Veronica Mars was on the verge of wetting itself. |
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Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence? |
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In a press conference at their home ground, he announced the club was on the verge of signing a foreign striker to sharpen their attack in front of goals. |
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He confesses and receives penances twice, once on the verge of execution, then finally is deemed insane and committed to an asylum at the close of his third trial. |
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These perpetual deficits are now on the verge of spiraling out of control, and only a blind optimist would discount the potential for a serious dollar accident. |
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When I wouldn't budge, the eejit in the high-performance car, decided to drive along the grass verge to get past me, such was his rush to get onto the carriageway. |
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But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading. |
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It was a brutally hot day, 103 degrees, and the city was on the verge of a racial explosion. |
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On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list. |
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When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation. |
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We saw a group of young stewards sitting by the grass verge laughing and enjoying the sun instead of directing the traffic and ensuring drivers did not queue-jump. |
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Unlike a lot of bands on the verge of a tour, they won't be going through the regular checklist of getting the van road-ready or packing sleeping bags. |
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He had come down and explained to the select committee that New Zealand was on the verge of developing a massive export market in manuka and kanuka products. |
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He was on the verge of tears, and he wrung his hands together worriedly. |
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Coming out of 2,000 feet and decelerating through 180 knots, the jet yawed so much to the left that I felt it was on the verge of departing controlled flight. |
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As the president neared the end of his remarks, a young woman beside him began to wobble, on the verge of fainting. |
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These changes are being made under the guise of fixing a country on the verge of collapse. |
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The ones on the verge of bankruptcy, with large, unfunded pension obligations. |
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Down by the beach, a skinny man wearing nothing but John Lennon glasses and a bright yellow sarong was dancing around pieces of paper he had displayed on the grass verge. |
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Instead of a verge and foliot escapements they used a device called a balance wheel, which swung back and forth regulating the motion of the gears. |
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Barley sugar is a sweet which was originally prepared from flavoured barley water made into a syrup with sugar and boiled to the verge of caramelization. |
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Then your eye will be caught by the rider hacking back at the verge weeds, or perhaps clicking away with his camera and making detailed notes in a pad. |
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Her reliance on transparent papers, stencils, stamps, collage and tracings lightens the often horrific nature of her imagery by making it seem on the verge of dissolution. |
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Actually, movement conservatives who turn against Wall Street are on the verge of breaking important new conceptual ground. |
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The multi-coloured Himalayan monal is an attractive pheasant hunted for its attractive feathers and crest, and is almost on the verge of extinction. |
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He was alone and heading back to the home of his girlfriend, Charlotte, when the car mounted the verge and hit a tree in the garden of a pair of unoccupied cottages. |
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To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion. |
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It is understood that the vehicle skidded after avoiding a car involved in another accident, mounted the verge and became impaled on a pole projecting from a crash barrier. |
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I drove towards Kings Tamerton and Victoria Road slip road when an idiot on a motorcycle undertook me between the nearside of my car and the grass verge. |
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Willard Mitt Romney stood on the verge of ultimate power as leader of the free world. |
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The objective here again is to enable those who are on the verge of immigrating to Canada to prepare themselves properly and to have as accurate a picture of Canada as possible in their minds. |
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Computerized sensors determine when a wheel is on the verge of locking up. |
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But if prevention is unavailing, and we are on the verge of killing fields and a humanitarian catastrophe, then the international community has a responsibility to protect. |
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The Union was overcautious following the events of 3 August 2005, which brought down the dictator, without a single drop of blood being shed, even though we knew that the country was on the verge of exploding. |
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Some areas of the country teeter on the verge of famine. |
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Back in 2013 Cyprus tried to secure Russian financial aid as the island's capital Nicosia watched its banking system teeter on the verge of collapse. |
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Only 30 per cent of Iraq's 3.5 million pupils are attending classes, compared to 75 per cent last school year.70 Universities in Baghdad and Basra, meanwhile, are on the verge of collapse. |
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Many fragile and lunar emotions flow from these melancholic tracks, always on the razor's edge, on the verge of going under at any moment, but that keep a proud and vengeful poise. |
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By taking irresponsible steps and jeopardizing peaceful civilian lives, the separatists' criminal regime is providing more proof that it is on the verge of collapse. |
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He had been on the verge of a nervous crackup the previous summer. |
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He's on the verge of being the greatest player of all time and he hasn't a clue how to put the clubface on the ball right now. |
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Too often, the arrival of the afflicted loved one happens in last resort, when those close to him or her are on the verge of collapse, following a number of remissions and relapses. |
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Even though a year ago it seemed like the global economy was on the verge of collapse, Canada is now on the road to recovery, after a recession that some would say was surprisingly mild. |
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Cod stocks in the North Sea, west of Scotland and in the Irish Sea and hake in these areas and to the south of Ireland and eastern Channel, which are important to the UK fishing sector, are on the verge of collapse. |
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But these weapons grow dull in an economy on the verge of atrophy, in a job market tilting ever more toward the top and in a political environment that would sacrifice the weak to the wealthy. |
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The PAC study raised the case of Liberia, a country on the verge of collapse, where the capital's hospital has been closed through a lack of funds but where there are flourishing diamonds and arms smuggling operations. |
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With this enterprise on the verge of collapse in the mid-1850s, his eldest son William sought to avoid bankruptcy by taking steps that would, unfortunately, prove illegal. |
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Europe's marine industries are on the verge of collapse, and the high cost of fuel oil is eroding the narrow economic margins available to fishermen. |
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That does not sound like a species on the verge of collapse. |
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Radical clerics were on the verge of ordering a citywide revolt. |
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Those are the places that will really have you on the verge of tears! |
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It will sometimes make you gasp out loud or leave you on the verge of tears, but one thing is for sure, it is a guilty pleasure to get inside the victims' heads. |
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I am suggesting that this committee is on the verge of going rogue. |
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Some of us were on the verge of tears when Cree Elder Irene Lindsay shared with us some of her experiences and the importance of role models in our People's lives. |
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Retirees who joined us outside the occupied plant on Thursday remain uncertain about their futures beyond May 29th and many were on the verge of tears. |
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This exacerbates the suffering of the victims in an inhumane manner and places the region on the verge of an intolerable and unacceptable humanitarian catastrophe. |
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The Dundonian, who has already broken into the Scotland squad, is on the verge of a regular first team spot at Ibrox. |
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India appeared on the verge of a civil war over language. |
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Now, it is on the verge of moving forward to realize some of the most exciting concepts in that plan, including the revitalization of important areas of the downtown core. |
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We were on the verge of disaster and the amounts spent to avert the total collapse of the world economy were about 25 percent of GDP, according to Hildebrand. |
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The scientists and engineers who spur on the continuous evolution of computers and other electronic devices are on the verge of creating new generations of products based on nanotechnology. |
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All attempts to negotiate had failed, and the situation was so embittered that the class was on the verge of splitting into two camps: one wanting to hold the party in a club, the other preferring another venue. |
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There is a claim being made, largely I think by some private broadcasters, that Canadian production is on the verge of what you might call a golden era. |
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A country until recently embroiled in internal violence is hopefully on the verge of demonstrating how one democratically-elected Government cedes place to another. |
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This impressive mammal seemed on the verge of extinction, a victim of enlightenment and manners and corporate groupspeak. |
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Having mastered the rudiments of missile technology, regional missile programmes are on the verge of crossing new thresholds in terms of range and payload. |
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The 'war of nerves' which we are watching now for several weeks opens the door to a possible 'uncontrolled sliding' in a region on the verge of explosion. |
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The Buddha Himself is standing behind the Christ in humble recognition of the divine task which He is on the verge of consummating, and because of the imminence of that spiritual accomplishment. |
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Some of his stuff may verge on the laddish and un-PC, but there's something fundamentally nerdy and awkward about Darby that means the harsh edges never quite hit home. |
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Sometimes the paintings verge on trippy high-school Magritte emulations, but more often, they are likably bizarre. |
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When you were at the verge of reaching a decision on this draft Presidential decision last June, I called on you to move forward in a spirit of compromise to seize that historic opportunity. |
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However, Geoffrey still didn't assist Matilda even as she was on the verge of defeat. |
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As the King left the country with a greatly reduced force, the kingdom seemed to be on the verge of civil war. |
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Richemont's force attacked the English army from the flank and rear just as they were on the verge of beating Clermont's army. |
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Wellesley's centre was now on the verge of collapse and wide open to an attack from the French. |
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In addition, standalone reflector batons are often used on the verge of Irish roads. |
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More desperately, it's that they see privacy as the last unmortgaged, unindebted, unsold space, always on the verge of being invaded by the materialism of survival that tyrannizes the rest of life. |
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The French and Spanish successfully took several West Indian islands and appeared to be on the verge of completely expelling the British there. |
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The answer is that cities are run by politicians most of whom are morons or on the verge of moronicity. |
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