Exempel på teetering

• At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.

• In addition, we are further characterizing the pathology of teetering brain using immunohistochemical methods.

• The wind-harp arpeggiation, complete with hairpin dynamic effect, mimics the teetering of the clock on his shoulders.

• At a pessimistic extreme, the city, and not just the urban poor, was claimed to be teetering at the very brink.

• A folk-like melody introduced a rustic quality, but there was an ever-present sense of danger, of teetering on the brink - the phrase 'dancing on a volcano' came to mind.

• It is, finally, this juxtaposition-a consequence of the 1520 battle-that most tellingly conveys the sense of a city teetering on the edge of two aesthetic worlds.

• Makerere was a university teetering on its last legs, an ivory tower that had lost touch with its environment and was at odds with national development needs.

• The harbour workers and ancillary staff who rely on the white fish fleet for a living are now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

• They were teetering on the brink of nuclear war just weeks ago, and that threat has not gone away.

• I would not have thought that a lengthy consideration of the pros and cons can be described as "teetering on the edge".

• We are teetering on the 8,000 shortage at the moment, and it may start going down again.

• I was teetering on the edge of the drawbridge, but withdrew very quickly.

• The society is teetering on the edge of complete social breakdown.

• Many small businesses could be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy simply because of high uniform business rates.

• Many regions of the world are teetering on the brink of disaster.