On the international front, France came repeatedly to the brink of war with the other imperial powers, such as the 1898 Fashoda Incident with Great Britain over East Africa.

On a Sunday in 1962, the world stood still at the brink of nuclear war during the October Cuban missile crisis from the implementation of U. S. vs U. S. S. R. nuclear blackmail policy.

On a few occasion, the two regions were on the brink of civil war.

On the brink of death, David told Solomon to have Joab killed citing Joab's past betrayals and the blood that he was guilty of, and for this Solomon ordered his death by the hand of Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2: 29-34 ), who then replaced him as commander of the army.

On the brink of war between the two great powers, the British decided to accept the Russian possession of territory north of the Amu Darya as a fait accompli.

On the brink of bankruptcy, the board was forced to close the broadcast programs.

On November 15, 1964, on the brink of death, Albizu was finally pardoned by Governor Muñoz Marin.

On 25 July 2007, with 6 weeks remaining until the finals, Essendon was on the brink of making the finals yet again when surprisingly it was announced by the Club that Sheedy's contract, due to expire at the end of the season, would not be renewed.

On the brink of escape, they are thwarted by the Mrs Wilberforce who discovers their true purpose.

On the brink of quitting his job, Wurf was appointed, again by Zander, to the presidency of District Council 37.

The 1914 assassination of the Habsburg archduke brought the European nations slithering, as David Lloyd George wrote, " over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war .” On 5 August 1914, Britain decided to carry the struggle to Africa and the Pacific, initiating colonial campaigns with naval might and dominion manpower to conquer Germany's protectorates.

On 7 July 2010, one week before the start of preliminary court proceedings, Lopera sold 94 % of the shares that he owned ( 51 % of Betis total shares ) to Bitton Sport, fronted by Luis Oliver, for the surprisingly low figure of € 16 million, leaving Lopera with only minor shares ; Oliver had already reportedly taken two football clubs, Cartagena FC and Xerez CD, to the brink of bankruptcy.

On the brink of madness after days alone with no sleep, Kelderek follows the bear to a mysterious place called the Streels of Urtah.

On the brink of sleep, a rustling and clawing wakes the man.

Elmore's best-known work is On the Brink ( 1865 ; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ), a moral genre painting depicting a young woman who has lost her money gambling, and is ' on the brink ' of responding to the blandishments of a seducer, who is depicted as a satan-like figure, luridly bathed in red light, and whispering corrupting thoughts in her ear.

' On this line Adler executed a leap that carried him to the brink, and almost over the brink, of the footlights.

On 17 July 2007 it was reported that Metronet was " teetering on the brink of administration ".

On the brink of death, Rand was saved when Moiraine tackled Lanfear and physically pushed them both into the red-stone ter ' angreal which led to the world of the Eelfinn.

On February 12, 2006 Deutsche Welle reported that Kurnaz's lawyers were hopeful that German authorities were on the brink of negotiating Kurnaz's repatriation.

* Chava Rosenfarb, The Tree Of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto Book One: On the brink of the precipice, 1939.

On the brink of extinction in the early part of this century, the salvation of the original Spanish type can be attributed primarily, but not exclusively, to Ferdinand L. Brislawn and his brother Robert E. Brislawn of Oshoto, Wyoming, who founded the Spanish Mustang Registry, Inc. in 1957.

On the international stage, at the end of 1901, Chile and Argentina were on the brink of war, due to border disputes.

On top of that, a large, but unsuccessful, expedition against the Byzantine Empire undertaken by the Umayyad caliph Sulayman in 717 brought the finances of the Umayyads to the brink of collapse.

On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

On June 1, 2009, as a part of the General Motors bankruptcy announcement, the company revealed that the Hummer brand would be discontinued.

On the morning of 19 December 2011, Saab Automobile AB officially declared bankruptcy while Saab AB remains in operation.

On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets to Rackable Systems, a deal finalized on May 11, 2009, with Rackable assuming the name " Silicon Graphics International ".

On May 8, 2006, SGI announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for itself and US subsidiaries as part of a plan to reduce debt by $ 250 million.

On January 21, 2010, Air America Radio ceased live programming citing a difficulty with the current economic environment, and announced that it would file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy production and liquidate itself.

On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes ' holding company, Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

On March 31, 2011 Priszm, owner of Taco Bell ( Canada ), went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia.

On September 15, 2008, a wider financial crisis became evident when Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy along with the economic effect of record high oil prices which reached almost $ 150 per barrel two months earlier.

On February 13, 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), the New York Stock Exchange, and the Federal Reserve, Drexel Burnham Lambert officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

On July 21, 2002, WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history at the time ( since overtaken by the collapses of both Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual in a span of eleven days in September 2008 ).

On 11 July 1893, after many failures and near bankruptcy, he was able to create the hemispherical cultured pearls.

On September 29, 2008, the Rapidz ceased operations as the team declared bankruptcy.

On September 13, 2011, lenders voted to agree to have the Stars file for bankruptcy and sold at auction.

On November 9, 2011, Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy, the most expensive municipal bankruptcy ever in the US, at $ 4. 1 billion, with debts of $ 3. 14 billion relating to sewer work.

On March 16, 2011, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jefferson County's 2009 occupational tax law was passed unconstitutionally, in a decision that dealt a devastating financial blow to a county considering bankruptcy.

On 23 December 2010, the consortium Bologna 2010 led by banker Giovanni Consorte and coffee businessman Massimo Zanetti acquired the club from Sergio Porcedda, after the latter failed to pay wages for the club during his short-tenured ownership and put Bologna in threaten of bankruptcy.

On February 16, 2011, Borders applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and began liquidating 226 of its stores in the United States.

On November 26, 2009, Borders ( UK ) Ltd was placed into administration, which is the equivalent to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.

On February 16, 2011, the company announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing $ 1. 275 billion in assets and $ 1. 293 billion in debts in its filing.

On June 11, 2004, the WBC announced it would enter Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation ( i. e., business closing and total asset sell-off ) proceedings, effectively ending its existence.

On October 21, 1925, Schulberg filed Preferred Pictures for bankruptcy, with debts at $ 820, 774 and assets $ 1, 420.

On Monday July 2, 2012, Mammoth Lakes filed for bankruptcy in the face of a $ 43-million breach-of-contract judgment brought against the town by a developer.

On October 15, 2001 Bethlehem filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.