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Перевод: brink
[существительное]
край ; берег
Тезаурус:
- J. A. Brink, from Paris, in a letter published in the same issue, is similarly vague, suggesting that the PWR has an availability of "below 80 per cent".
- THE world teetered on the brink of a new Cold War for 30 minutes yesterday after an astonishing speech by Russia's Foreign Minister.
- GORDON TAYLOR, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, yesterday rejected the help of Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson as a mediator in the dispute with the Premier League that has brought the game to the brink of a strike.
- opinions and principles like Wilde's have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history, generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay.
- I am dallying on the brink, and for an ex-smoker, the brink is a perilous place to be; for an ex-smoker of the left, it is more perilous still.
- Time and again her paintings demonstrated an alternative to the brink which they sensed his were heading for.
- The recurring bouts of illness made him feel he was continually living on the brink of eternity.
- Many of the deals struck in this frenzied atmosphere are sure to go sour eventually, sending more companies to the brink.
- He is on the brink of breakdown, sobbing and incoherent."
- Fast, quick-witted and determined as a player, demanding and insistent as a manager, there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure.
- Instead, a unique series of technical failures and operator mistakes had led, as the pessimists feared, to the brink of a disaster.
- In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power.
- All these factors - and many, many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced, deadline-packed daily lives - are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink.
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