Usar "to the brink of" en una oración
to the brink of oraciones de ejemplo
to the brink of
1. It almost seemed as if the battle would bring them to the brink of extinction
2. The story says he was publicly chastised, with a hundred lashes to his back; the chastisement had brought him to the brink of death
3. The map had changed! And you knew nothing! I had burned the world down nine times, not once, but nine times! Each time, I drove myself to the brink of madness trying to understand where I had broken the rules where I had overstepped, why it always came down to a frigging draw! And then I read the tale of Umberth, and I knew
4. he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river
5. But I would not have it, starving myself to the brink of death only to be forcibly fed by Jacques when I was no longer strong enough to fight him
6. I couldn’t see what happened after very well, I was weak with being drained to the brink of death, but I will never forget the beheld cries of agony that left my brothers lips as they whimpered and scattered in futility to release themselves from his grasp
7. ” I breathed shocked to the brink of tears, recalling a distant childhood memory when I asked Mom what the name Katelyn meant
8. 8 And you shall command the priests that bear the Ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan
9. That includes thousands who were in the Great Link and were driven to the brink of breakdown by sharing in your deaths and Talia’s suffering during your battle with Zarkog, and some suffered from being Linked or contributing power beyond their healthy limits
10. Europe, often taking civilization to the brink of
11. I can never forgive this doddering fool and his neo-con thugs for what they have done to bring my country to the brink of ruin
12. These thoughts often reverberate in my mind, pushing me to the brink of suicide
13. brought to the brink of annihilation because of it
14. Thus this qunamic fight for survival within the system would have brought the plunamic structures to the brink of extinction
15. She was left totally unsatisfied, frustrated to the brink of murder and filled with shame
16. An awe-inspiring flow of Gods’ Love poured from the window, or the tree from which I rested, of God, and filled me to the brink of overflowing
17. The town bustled with activity, which upset Shoop to the brink of violence
18. But, with unbelievable speed for a big man, the giant turned sideways and lashed out with a huge foot kicking Keegan with such tremendous force that he went flying over the edge of the pit and down the embankment to the brink of death
19. “It shouldn’t be too hard for a guy who blacked out half the country, and is bringing us to the brink of a revolution, to cause a little ol’ earthquake
20. It was less than one hour since one of these men had brought her to the brink of ecstasy before she had banished him into the forest
21. Attack is lacked – inflations affected surrender is pushed to the brink of limitation
22. Pride has brought us to the brink of insurrection, total corruption and
23. Or had the parrot deliberately led these people to the brink of disaster, as his
24. Also someone has been hunting them to the brink of extinction
25. When the cost of replacing destroyed equipment pushed the program to the brink of cancellation, someone at last had the revelation to merely do away with the generic indoor news-desk scene (which most people were sick of anyway) and instead film the Grimbats talking out in some open field where they were free to fly around
26. Some of the more perceptive peasants had tried to stop the initial lighting of the fires, for they realized not only was the atmosphere of Lincra already being pushed to the brink of destruction by the daily influx of Investment Banker-guzzling space cruisers, but also the valuable wood the ladders were made from could be broken down and turned into useful, entirely non-ladder related stuff
27. Apparently, Adrian didn't suspect that it was Sheridan who drove him to the brink of suicide, but the burning question was why she had allowed him to live
28. led me to the brink of total financial ruin
29. “For three days my best men have brought her to the brink of death and back again and she has revealed nothing!”
30. many other men had been brought to the brink of ruin by her ways
31. Now the religious zealots were taking the world to the brink of war
32. The same year, Onassis did something else that drove him to the brink of
33. They have not yet been forced by hardship to the brink of near-death, near-death starvation, near-death dehydration, and near-death brought about by exposure to the elements
34. activities and pushing himself to the brink of exhaustion
35. A line of flaming torches led them down to the brink of a
36. And with this kind of disposition she does more harm in this country than if the plague had got into it, for her affability and her beauty draw on the hearts of those that associate with her to love her and to court her, but her scorn and her frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so they know not what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and
37. hurrying me to the brink of a precipice, plunging me into dark waves, or horrid
38. I felt that I had come to the brink of my grave
39. It was on May the First that the two came back at last to the brink of the valley of Rivendell, where stood the Last (or the First) Homely House
40. Then he returned to the brink of the dell and looked
41. At last one evening they came over the high moors, suddenly as to travellers it always seemed, to the brink of the deep valley of Rivendell
42. Even Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” who reportedly signed a recording contract worth almost $1 billion and sold more than 750 million records, was forced to the brink of bankruptcy in 2007, when he was unable to pay back a $25 million loan on his Neverland Ranch
43. His cynical non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939, and his failure to prepare adequately for the German invasion of 1941, brought his country to the brink of ruin
44. This new bubble popped in an even more destructive fashion than that of the dot-com stocks earlier in the decade and brought worldwide markets close to the brink of collapse, ushering in the worst bear market for stocks since the Great Depression
45. He seemed to have been born with overwrought nerves, and in his passionate desire to excel, he was often led to the brink of some rash step; and yet, having resolved upon such a step, when the moment arrived, he invariably proved too sensible to take it
46. You know it, when after the joys of love, you expect with emotion, fear, and hope, the torturing state of pregnancy, which makes you ill for nine months, and brings you to the brink of death and to unbearable sufferings and pains: you know the conditions of true labour, when with joy you expect the approach and increase of the most dreadful sufferings, after which comes the bliss, known to you only
47. Adopt it, and there is a termination of that base and abject submission, by which this country has for these eleven months been disgraced, and brought to the brink of ruin
48. For the first time since my entrance into this body, there now seems to be but one opinion with a great majority—that with Great Britain war is inevitable; that the hopes of the sanguine as to a returning sense of British justice have expired; that the prophecies of the discerning have failed; and, that her infernal system has driven us to the brink of a second revolution, as important as the first
49. I look to the arguments of the advocates of this pernicious system, and they acknowledge that we are driven to the brink of a war that will require loans and taxes, and end in a new debt of at least fifty millions of dollars—and under these circumstances, when we are upon the heels of a second revolution, when the people are likely to be most pressed for the ways and means to carry on the war with vigor and certain success, the ruinous system of a great navy is pressed upon us