If either or both of those practices spread very much further, then in my judgment civilisation will be tottering upon the edge of the abyss.
During the past 25 years, the railway industry has tottered from crisis to crisis and from problem to problem.
The economic damage to those tottering on the brink may well push them over the edge.
The consumer at this moment is charged enormously more; half the trades which depend upon coal are at this moment in difficulties and tottering.
The economy, indeed the country, is tottering on the brink of collapse.
Listening to some of the speeches one would imagine that the steel industry was tottering into some sort of decline.
Can she say what intervention she will make to save the tottering textile industry?
We have no banks breaking and tottering to their fall in this country.