cliff-edge

We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake

Christine A. Scheller: When Tragedies Are Too Big To Absorb, How Do We Find And Give Comfort? Christine A. Scheller 2011

Osborne stressed the principle of withdrawal of higher-rate benefit was not up for discussion, but the means of implementation was being examined to see if the "cliff-edge effect" could be smoothed.

Liberal Democrats voice fears on housing benefit reform 2012

It is hard in retrospect to appreciate how cliff-edge were these David and Goliath contests, and how desperately alone were the Davids.

They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices Simon Jenkins 2010

His so-called "hidden years," after the arch-villain Professor Moriarty sent Holmes plunging over the cliff-edge into the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, have been pitilessly re-imagined.

The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake

Christine A. Scheller: When Tragedies Are Too Big To Absorb, How Do We Find And Give Comfort? Christine A. Scheller 2011

King went to the cave entrance, to look the new man over; but because he was in Khinjan, and Khinjan in the "Hills," where indirectness is the key to information, he stood for a while at gaze, listening to the thunder of tumbling water and looking at the cliff-edge six feet away that was laid like a knife in the ascending mist.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

Just as a signpost warns of rockfalls near a cliff-edge, the standing stones were meant to mark a spot of danger.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Taking the car as near to the cliff-edge as he dared, Naldo pushed it, allowing it to roll off with the engine still running.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

"We strongly believe that a cliff-edge may be around the corner, for the global banking system, particularly in Europe, and for the global economy, particularly in the US and Europe" said Andrew Roberts, head of European rates strategy at RBS.

Global markets on 'cliff edge' amid fears over European banks 2010

That lump-in-the-throat embrace on the windy cliff-edge above the raging Atlantic, that afternoon of cavorting with puppy Labradors in waist-high wheat, that climactic moment of inspiration in the glowing green field beneath the conch pink sky: zilch, obliterated, cigarette ash out a train window.

Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010