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How To Use verge In A Sentence

• Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
• Economists say the ecosystem is basically healthy; ecologists worry it may, be on the verge of being irreparably damaged.
• He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
• Finally, a political party is the convergence of a group of people based on their political ideals and ideologies.
• When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation.
• Plastic bags, crisp packets, plastic bottles and soggy newspapers lie abundantly in the verges, or caught in trees and hedges.
• Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
• Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.
• As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago. Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
• And how can those who profess to revere this charismatic figure, propound views so intolerantly divergent from those of their great leader?