Greece is standing on the edge of a precipice, staring at a disorderly default.
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For twenty years I had been walking at the edge of a precipice, neatly balanced, calm and smiling.
The future of the Euro stands on the edge of a precipice as I write this blog.
Yet many of the biggest buyers look at the heights the ad market has reached and see a precipice.
It's a shame, though, since the novel's depiction of a society dancing on the edge of a precipice is so timely.
They fight and claw, unaware they are speeding towards a precipice, oblivious to the common danger that makes their differences pale.
Now in the 21st century, perhaps we have also reached a precipice.
He said the County Durham man had let the coach hit rocks to slow down rather than risk it going over a precipice.
He said the rescue had been "particularly challenging" and rescuers had decided not to use the path because it is on the edge of a precipice.
Mr Cuvillier suggested that Mr Wrightson, from Ashington, had saved lives by trying to slow down the vehicle by hitting rocks rather than risk it going over a precipice.
So we're likely to go through Christmas and the new year with the eurozone on the edge of a precipice - which also means that our economy is too close to the big drop for comfort.
This nation stands before a precipice.
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And there were some economists who said that we may be falling over a precipice: The banking sector had completely locked up, no credit was flowing, and we might end up seeing a global depression that rivaled what happened in the 1930s.
It is thought that if the man survives the fall down a rocky precipice, he will be hanged.
Neither bought into the view, promoted popularly by economist Paul Krugman, that Western economies are on a deflationary precipice, but nor does either favor tightening right now.
The delay means instant commands to change direction are not possible and so a rover must have autonomy to make decisions if, for example, it is approaching a dangerous precipice.
Who knew we were on the precipice of a new wine world?
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IPass may be on the precipice of a new era of rapid growth as it migrates its business from providing dial-up connectivity to corporate customers to high-speed wireless networks.
We are at the precipice of a major change in the way enterprises conduct business and Google Apps is providing us with a window into how that shift will take place.
Mr McKeever has been a harsh critic of Home Secretary Theresa May who he described as being "on the precipice of destroying" a police service admired throughout the world.
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Featuring an eclectic selection of personalities and powers, Rain-Slick Precipice 3 is a quality homage and a brilliant game in its own right.
As we near the so-called fiscal cliff, I am reminded that the precipice can be a treacherous place for those of us who place a value on the unmistakable economic benefits of private aviation.
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Rain-Slick Precipice 3 is a throwback to the classic 16-bit era and runs smooth without any kind of connection, so keep it on hand when you find yourself in one of those dark pockets of the world.
So we thought that we were imminently on the precipice of what could be a truly humanitarian catastrophe.
It was little more than a year ago that we stood on that precipice.
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If making money on operations was a near impossibility, Kozmo seemed perpetually on the precipice of tapping into the public equity markets.
Indeed, it's worth repeating that there's a risk of using the 2009-10 figures as a guide to anything at all other than the precipice over which the UK's finances hurtled that year.
The slopes are craggy, storm-blasted and steep, and food is pretty much limited to potatoes and whatever animals you can chase up a 50-grade incline without falling down the adjacent precipice.
Mr. ASTON-REESE: I'm not a naysayer or anything but I just think that we could be on that - just on the precipice looking down into the abyss right here.
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