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Between advertisers continuing to cut spending, economies on the brink of recessions, the end of emergency employment benefits, and a pandemic that’s surging in some markets, agency holding group CEOs are still in the grip of a serious crisis.

She was sexually and verbally abused, leading her to the brink of suicide.

Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.

It is conceivable, if highly unlikely, that most Palestinians will try to pull back from the brink.

Meanwhile, their Missouri hometown appears to be on the brink of chaos.

But things were once a lot closer to the brink than most people knew.

I swung down from my horse on the brink of the creek, cinched the saddle afresh, and rolled a cigarette.

It was a hippopotamus which had been standing on the river-brink within six yards of the muzzle of his gun.

He sees no longer the brink of the abyss beside which the path of progress picks its painful way.

And presently we galloped across a mile or two of level grassland and pulled up on the very brink of Sage Creek canyon.

On the opposite side of the stream, set back about thirty paces from the brink, stood a granite boulder.