Pakistan on the Precipice

Thailand on the Precipice

Russia is moving toward precipice.

So what you see, that precipice, that high precipice with the valley, is the 2008 financial crisis.

BERKELEY Europe is again on the precipice.

Precipice running to and running from human beings.

(Video) Peter Parker Standing on the precipice,

Dr. Edwardes plunged over the precipice while skiing.

That is the precipice on which Greece stands today.

Rest of shoreline's sheer precipice, hundreds of feet high.

It would have been so easy. Remember the precipice?

Now, at last, we are climbing down from the precipice.

Indeed, China is on the precipice of becoming an environmental wasteland.

Do they keep tempting you to throw yourself over the precipice?

The world financial system again stood at the edge of a precipice.

I felt as if I was on the edge of a precipice.

But right now, the global economy is teetering on the precipice of disaster.

I'm on the precipice looking down into a dead volcano to my left.

Following the crisis, Kennedy was determined to pull back from the precipice for good.

Little wonder, then, that on the precipice of this historic moment, there are many snakes in the grass.

More important, actively blocking that step forces the political system toward a precipice from which democracy cannot return.

We are rushing towards another precipice, where the disparities in wealth between nations would trigger violent revolution within States.

And we climbed up and we got to the very top, and we're on the edge, on this precipice,

Roland disappears into the sulfur smoke at the volcano at the other end, and I'm up there alone on this incredible precipice.

(voice in the television)...the economies have been on the edge of a financial and economic precipice. (narrator) You are falling asleep.

CAMBRIDGE As the world economy tumbles off the edge of a precipice, critics of the economics profession are raising questions about its complicity in the current crisis.

And this is such a critical issue for us because if we don't do that, we're going to watch more of these animals plunge off the precipice.

The financial system may be more stable than it was five years ago, but that is a low bar back then, it was teetering on the edge of a precipice.

We're sitting on the edge of a precipice, and we have the tools and the technology at our hands to communicate what needs to be done to hold it together today.

We're sitting on the edge of a precipice, and we have the tools and the technology at our hands to communicate what needs to be done to hold it together today.

And in a way, without us even noticing, has ended up standing on the precipice of its own extinction, waiting for us to give it a big boot and knock it over.

In practice, however, governments often face complications that undermine effective implementation of these measures. If policymakers are not careful, two problems, in particular, can reinforce each other, potentially pushing the economy over the precipice.

CAMBRIDGE As the world economy tumbles off the edge of a precipice, critics of the economics profession are raising questions about its complicity in the current crisis. Rightly so economists have plenty to answer for.

The challenge of this opportunity will require us to conduct international relations with the vision and realism of people who recognize how near, in the past, the world has been to the edge of the precipice.

And in a way, without us even noticing, has ended up standing on the precipice of its own extinction, waiting for us to give it a big boot and knock it over. And get rid of it.

What will the president decide? He or she may have promised, even in public, that creditors would face losses, but on the edge of the precipice, which way will you, the beleaguered adviser, urge the president to go?

By contrast, the LTRO allows Italian and Spanish banks to engage in a very profitable and practically riskless arbitrage, but has kept government bonds hovering on the edge of a precipice although the last few days brought some relief.

In fact, Pakistan s descent into a jihadist dungeon occurred not under civilian rule, but under two military dictators one who nurtured and let loose jihadist forces, and another who took his country to the very edge of the precipice.

If the world has not fallen off the protectionist precipice during the crisis, as it did during the 1930 s, much of the credit must go the social programs that conservatives and market fundamentalists would like to see scrapped.

But insufficient and sometimes counterproductive actions, coupled with panic and overreaction in financial markets, have brought some countries, such as Spain, which is a fundamentally solvent and strong economy, to the edge of the precipice, and with it the whole eurozone.

In the Cuban missile crisis, the US and the Soviet Union stumbled to the precipice of nuclear war, not because of any desire for one (except among a few hothead extremists), but because of a series of miscalculations and pressure exerted by hardliners.

At the first two rounds of new talks between Iran and the P5 1 (the five permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany), in Istanbul in April and Baghdad in May, both sides still at least stumbled along the edge of the precipice.

Is he who founded his building upon duty to Allah and His good pleasure better or he who founded his building on the brink of a crumbling , overhanging precipice so that it toppled with him into the fire of hell ? Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk .

NEW YORK The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to be perched in late 2008, and that 2010 will almost surely be better for most countries around the world.

So is one who established his foundation upon the fear of Allah and upon His pleasure better , or the one who laid his foundation upon the brink of a falling precipice , so it fell along with him into the fire of hell ? And Allah does not guide the unjust .