He takes a few steps to the edge of the drop, the edge of the world.
For example, individuals at the edge of the world can unlock new regions for everyone else.
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Its inaccessibility amplifies its remoteness, creating a perception of being at the edge of the world.
With a 6ft 9ins drop (2.02m) jockeys say the fence is like "jumping off the edge of the world".
Are you one of those timid mariners who's afraid to leave shore because you might come to the edge of the world and fall into a dragon's maw?
It's a far cry from the golden age of exploration, when daring men set sail into the unknown, fearful they might suddenly drop off the edge of the world.
The island of Shishmaref came into view, it lies at the farthest edge of the Western world, just a hundred miles from Russia.
Japan is on the edge of changing the world economic picture.
I'm sure the techies over there in London who put it together congratulate themselves -- over their triple cafe lattes -- for being at the leading edge of the broadband world.
Looking west from our bedroom's rear window we could sometimes see inland as far as the dark treeline of the Watchungs, a low-lying mountain range fringed by great estates and affluent, sparsely populated suburbs, the extreme edge of the known world and about eight miles from our house.
Despite growing interest in their troubles, that seems a distant prospect for those languishing on the edge of the working world.
But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.
Scambos said the poles will be the leading edge of what's happening in the rest of the world as global warming continues.
It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.
No matter how small the sticker on the car, the camera by the side of the track, in the driver's helmet or on the edge of the cockpit can pick it up and broadcast it to the world.
We need to be on the cutting edge of tax and economic policy in the world so that we're the center of innovation, effort, growth, jobs.
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You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.
The National Archives in Washington held a discussion Thursday about the case that set the museum world on edge and raised alarms about the vulnerability of archives, museums and research collections nationwide.
The Pentagon is the biggest purchaser of cutting-edge technologies and technical services in the world, but as I will demonstrate, its myopic approach to industry minimizes the economic benefits of spending all that money.
The bird flu, so-called H5N1, has top epidemiologists across the world on edge because of its potential to mutate into a new strain that no one would be immune to and that could easily spread among humans.
As America and the world teeter on the edge of yet another possible downturn, it pays to know who can guide you through.
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And it's exciting to see the leaders of some of the most innovative, cutting-edge, tech-savvy companies in the world gathered in the city where I had to fight tooth and nail just to get a BlackBerry. (Laughter.) There may be a little bit of a cultural clash here, but that's exactly why we want you here.
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This is all happening on the edge of the West End, the most expensive real-estate market in the world.
Again, the world is sitting on the edge of a financial abyss.
On the other hand, those extra dollars do tend to pay for cutting-edge treatments and equipment the rest of the world can only dream of.
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The world was already on edge in anticipation of the close-shave flyby of the near earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which was unexpectedly followed within the next 72 hours by two other separate fireballs over Northern California and parts of Florida.
While getting bigger, Chinese companies have yet to gain the competitive edge in world markets and win the respect of institutional investors.
The use of English around the world gives London an edge over other European centres.
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Barely making a sound, the Mercedes backed and filled and swung past the chase car and started up the dirt spur toward the sprawling wooden dacha at the edge of the village of Prigorodnaia, soon to be connected to the Moscow-Petersburg highway-and the world-by a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.
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