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227 examples of Abyss in a sentence

Will you really argue that the president should leap over the edge, thereby plunging millions of people – their jobs, their homes, and their families – into a financial abyss?
Of this amount, around $2 billion was received by the five best-paid individuals, who were also central to creating the highly risky asset structures that brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss: Sandy Weil (built Citigroup, which blew up shortly after he left);Hank Paulson (greatly expanded Goldman Sachs, lobbied for allowing more leverage in investment banks, then moved to the US Treasury and helped save them);Angelo Mozilo (built Countrywide, a central player in irresponsible mortgage lending);Dick Fuld (ran Lehman Brothers into the ground); and Jimmy Cayne (ran Bear Stearns into the ground).
The consequence is a complicated game – currently exemplified by the saga of Greek voluntary restructuring – in which both sides stare into the abyss and then turn away from the out-and-out conflict that would send them plummeting into it.
Europe would plunge into the abyss, and 60 years of political, economic, and social progress would be lost.
But the enthusiasm gap between the two governments need not be an unbridgeable abyss.
As Fed Chair, he quickly put his theories to the test as America stared into another abyss.
If we open them and start looking at cause and effect, we can avoid the abyss to which such willful blindness beckons us.
Trump’s Republican CollaboratorsNEW YORK – After nine months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the leaders of the Republican Party appear finally to be waking up to the harsh reality that their country stands at the edge of an abyss.
The unofficial but real purpose, is to see whether it is possible to close the abyss between Britain and the rest.
The Fund, having swooped in to pluck Greece from the abyss, is ready to step back from the brink.
Nevertheless, as we sit on the brink of the abyss, it is worth re-examining our assumptions that since poverty breeds conflict, socio-economic development must foster political stability and reduce recourse to violence.
While they would most likely have no immediate calming effect on today’s panic-stricken financial markets, they are far superior to watching with folded hands as Europe descends into a financial abyss.
Lehman Brothers had been awarded a high rating on the very eve of its collapse, yet now the rating agencies criticize governments that pulled the global economy back from the abyss for violating accounting principles.
Only the ECB has the unlimited wherewithal to save Europe from the abyss now.
And it has allowed Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia to linger on the crumbling edge of the “failed state” abyss.
With bomb explosions almost taking the life of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opposition leader Khaleda Zia charged with murder, and violent protests and arson sweeping the capital, the country seems poised at the edge of a terrifying abyss.
Both riots brought Romania to the rim of the abyss.
The national reservations must be go, and a joint strategy for success must be adopted, including a massive increase in civilian and military aid for Afghanistan, if the country is to be prevented from descending into the same abyss as Iraq.
Nor have these positive developments inspired much confidence that the Arab world will somehow pull itself back from the edge of the abyss.
Thanks to a massive fiscal stimulus, China veered away from the abyss in early 2009.
Is President Barack Obama’s administration stumbling toward the abyss?
The Fed insists that it is blameless – the same absurd position that it took in the aftermath of the Great Crisis of 2008-2009, when it maintained that its excessive monetary accommodation had nothing to do with the property and credit bubbles that nearly pushed the world into the abyss.
They took to the streets to express their rejection of a European Union-imposed austerity policy that they believe is leading them into an abyss.
A plunge into the abyss is the most dangerous outcome imaginable, if not the likeliest.
“A capital is an abyss where nearly the entire nation goes to lose its morals, its laws, its courage, and its liberty.”
For all of its flaws, the political dialogue that has been initiated in Tunisia, thanks to the Islamist movement Ennahda and the non-religious parliamentary parties, has saved the country from the political abyss.
The implications of stepping into the abyss are far more serious than the consequences of the “fiscal cliff” confronting American policymakers, or of the recession stalking Europe.
Dependence on Russia – even if its face is now that of the allegedly “charismatic” Gerhard Schroeder – will only lead to an abyss.
The party goes on, while its host edges toward the abyss.
In examining the ruins of the nuclear abyss and recognizing our eternal sorrow, he will confirm our countries’ now-unbreakable ties.
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