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In fact, the country is on the
verge
of total collapse.
After all, isn’t it the fault of the CDS market’s avaricious speculators that Greece was on the
verge
of default and that Greek public employees have had to endure deep wage cuts?
Today, despite what happened in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – and appeared to be on the
verge
of happening after the recent disputed election in Kenya – no country openly accepts racist doctrines.
Nevertheless, some biologists believe that they are on the
verge
of creating a microbe in the laboratory.
Iran, for example, is on the
verge
of losing the faithful junior partner that it had in Syria.
On the contrary, far from being banished from bond markets, they have generally bounced back quickly: investors like a sinner who returns to solvency better than a paragon of virtue on the
verge
of suffocation.
But it increasingly appears that the world may be on the
verge
of a new era, characterized by a wary yet crucial collaboration between countries – particularly Iran and the United States – that had been irreconcilable since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In the case of sharks and rays, a recent survey indicates that close to one-third of the 64 ocean-living species are on the
verge
of extinction.
And yet, after 30 years of geopolitical competence, the Chinese seem to be on the
verge
of losing it just when they need it most.
But China is not really on the
verge
of a currency crisis at all.
Anyone who doubts that should recall how last decade’s securitization boom and bust – another example of a disruptive financial innovation that was over-produced and over-consumed – contributed to a credit and liquidity crisis that pushed the global economy to the
verge
of Great Depression II.
The Gates Foundation, UNICEF, Rotary International, and many governments have succeeded in bringing down polio deaths to one-thousandth of the rate a generation ago, bringing the disease to the
verge
of eradication.
Five years later, the same question is being asked about the tattered, demoralised Conservatives, who seem on the
verge
of a party split which could condemn them to opposition for decades.
Despite unrest in Bolivia, and populist politicians on the march, Latin America isn’t on the
verge
of an economic meltdown.
This is hardly the stuff of a country whose development model is on the
verge
of “collapse.”
The global mining industry is on the
verge
of transforming itself from fossil-fuel extraction to supplying materials for a greener energy future.
In fact, they are examples of crisis-mode policymaking, which tends to favor impressive-seeming stopgap measures (not to mention lofty declarations that can
verge
on hollowness or hyperbole), instead of real solutions.
In our global war on AIDS, the international community is on the
verge
of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
And yet the disconnect between this reality and the Poland “in ruins” or “on the
verge
of catastrophe” perceived by many voters was too strong to ignore.
And now the crisis has reached the southern shore of the Mediterranean, in the form of a revolution in Tunisia and a political showdown in Lebanon that has once again brought the country to the
verge
of war and disaster.
But these pragmatic moves should not be viewed as evidence that Asia is on the
verge
of violent conflict.
But as crippling nuclear-related sanctions in recent years brought the Iranian economy to the
verge
of collapse, Iran’s conservatives were forced to negotiate in good faith with the international community.
Is Greece the “canary in the coalmine” – the warning that tells us that Europe’s monetary union is on the
verge
of dissolution, with the other three of the famous PIGS (Portugal, Italy, and Spain) lining up like dominoes to fall?George Soros fears this might be the case, and gives the eurozone only a 50% chance of survival in its present form.
Today, Iraq may be on the
verge
of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.
Japan’s economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the
verge
of breaking free from chronic deflation.
Of course, France is not on the
verge
of collapsing into chaos, with vigilantes attempting to take on the terrorists.
They are presumed to be on the
verge
of winning an overwhelming majority in the parliamentary elections due on December 7, yet like Korzhakov and his clique, they could be routed.
Aside from deep uncertainty regarding the course of events in Egypt and Libya, now Syria is on the
verge
of civil war, and radical forces may get the upper hand in Yemen, undermining security in Saudi Arabia.
The German Constitutional Court and the ECJ agree that the Lisbon Treaty prohibits the ECB from taking action to support a sovereign on the
verge
of insolvency; that is a fiscal and political issue.
As Afghan President Hamid Karzai is said by his critics to be on the
verge
of casting his lot with Pakistan and the Taliban, the Pentagon has signaled its fear that the war may spread beyond the Pashtun heartland to the largely Tajik and Uzbek areas in the north of the country.
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