How To Use Brinkmanship In A Sentence
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Iran has proved adept at nuclear brinkmanship in the past and may do so again.
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Burgundian winemakers revel in this brinkmanship.
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But there is a game of brinkmanship going on here too.
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The brinkmanship may go on for years unless a compromise is reached.
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Alarmingly, QE has brought forth a new brinkmanship gambling upon the proclivity of foreign investors to not divest their investment in our Treasury securities.
Patrick Yam: Epiphinal Economic Times
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There is a lot of political brinkmanship involved in this latest development.
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My intervention came in the nick of time, and tested the very limits of his fistfight brinkmanship.
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Melissa in a game of brinkmanship accused Zork of infidelity which enraged him.
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Its current brinkmanship is the work of a regime in which moderates have little room left to maneuver.
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There is a lot of political brinkmanship involved in this latest development.
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The appeasement policies encouraged Hitler, the master of brinkmanship.
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It was pure political brinkmanship.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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I mean, if they're playing brinkmanship, I think they're playing with the wrong guy.
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But this game of political brinkmanship has already gone too far.
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The stakes are high for both Harper and Ignatieff, and with the new polling numbers brinkmanship is inevitable.
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But fans of political intrigue at the highest levels of brinkmanship will likely be happy with this film.
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This callous brinkmanship has become an annual ordeal.
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But there's a strange niggling as we enter into this new era of musical brinkmanship.
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Dulles’s willingness to take risks, at least verbally, attached the word brinkmanship to him.
Staying Tuned
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As everyone knows, Tinseltown is all about the lawsuits and the brinkmanship of the helmers and studio heads, and who blinks first.
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This callous brinkmanship has become an annual ordeal.
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If the two-month extension passes, it would mark one of the briefest tax measures yet, accelerating the recent trend in Congress toward last-minute brinkmanship and short-term compromises on taxes.
Payroll Executives Complain About Lawmakers' Penchant for Brief Fixes
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In his foreign policy, Clinton often combined brinkmanship with indecision over the use of military force.
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North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.
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South Korean critics claim such brinkmanship is shortsighted.
No Pain, No Gain?
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Making British support conditional on renegotiation would be dangerous brinkmanship.
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Unspoken, yet unmistakable in all the brinkmanship was the 2012 election campaign, still 18 months away, with the White House and both houses of Congress at stake.
Debt talks crisis: Boehner, Obama trading blame
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More than Vietnam, it was the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 that taught Kennedy vital lessons about the limitations and dangers of expansionism and brinkmanship in a thermonuclear age.
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In an escalating situation neither side has much of a reputation for brinkmanship.
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For such a normally quick tempered and impatient people they have shown themselves adepts at procrastination and brinkmanship.
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Making British support conditional on renegotiation would be dangerous brinkmanship.
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So maybe Apple's anticompetitive brinkmanship is actually the best thing that could happen for everyone?
Android 2.2 Will Officially Support Flash 10.1 | Lifehacker Australia
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The ancient British art of industrial brinkmanship is risky for managements and unions that try to force each other to blink first.
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The North should rid itself of the illusion that brinkmanship will be effective.
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Less belligerent in its audience pandering than its predecessors (less fart jokes, less homophobic subtext, and - thank Jesus - less squawking from Eddie Murphy), Shrek the Third may not give haters a migraine, but its lobotomized sense of comic brinkmanship is still without fun.
GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third.
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This callous brinkmanship has become an annual ordeal.
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It was pure political brinkmanship.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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But in working out his political strategy, he played a dangerous game of political brinkmanship.
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Iran has proved adept at nuclear brinkmanship in the past and may do so again.
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They are engaged in a game of political brinkmanship.
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The brinkmanship may go on for years unless a compromise is reached.
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In any game of brinkmanship, it is possible that one side will collapse suddenly.
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It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence.
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The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides.
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They are engaged in a game of political brinkmanship.
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