Today in the wild they are on the brink of extinction.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

On the brink of bankruptcy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Kevin Nolan double puts Newcastle on the title brink.    From Wordnik.com.  [icNewcastle] Reference

The only way we will move away from this brink is one step at at time ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth] Reference

The only way we will move away from this brink is one step at at time, and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth] Reference

Pulled back from the brink is the common phrase used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Fiery play by R. Wallace sparks Pistons to title brink.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Fiery play by R. Wallace sparks Pistons to title brink] Reference

Babies on the brink is the topic of tonight's CNN presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 19, 2002] Reference

This was baseball at the very brink, which is where the Yankees live.    From Wordnik.com.  [USA TODAY Latest news] Reference

USATODAY. com - Fiery play by R. Wallace sparks Pistons to title brink.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Fiery play by R. Wallace sparks Pistons to title brink] Reference

The world is on the so-called brink of World War III and Dubya goes on vacation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Blair Delays Vacation To Seek Resolution Of Mideast Crisis, Bush Heads To Crawford] Reference

No, what took these companies to the brink was the outdated technology they offered to consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mashable!] Reference

A note upon the brink was the end, as all did think, Of the best and wisest man we've ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unicorn Trade]

Insofar as evolution is concerned, maybe teetering on the brink is a good thing, the researchers speculate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good news – A little crazy is adaptive. | Letter Never Sent] Reference

What pushed him over the brink was the death of Janis Joplin, which he blamed on the pressures of her career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Slick The Biography]

And on top of that, you have the situation in Iraq which our own U.S. ambassador has described as the brink of civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2006] Reference

Group nearly collapsed, the conventional wisdom has been that the exotic derivatives that drove it to the brink were the product of a lone.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

One of the factors that drove Conquest over the brink is the exorbitant cash reserve fund the credit contracts require of travel suppliers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleans.ca] Reference

Today he was on Imus bloviating about Iraq being on the "brink" of civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference

They took us to the "brink" of running "off the cliff" and creating the Second Great Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [William K. Black: Why is Obama Championing Bush's Financial Wrecking Crew?] Reference

Nearly one in four Ohio children under age 5 is living on the "brink" of hunger, according to a national report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Freewheeling Era] Reference

If people on the "brink" can get help and obtain a workout, without Government intervention, everybody wins. www.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil Cavuto and FOX News: I like you - I really, really do - BUT what am I not understanding ?] Reference

We know that if the MSM is telling us the country is on the "brink" of civil war, then civil war is up and running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Goes the Weasel] Reference

But then, the screaming loudmouth sub-1-percenters aren't on the "brink" of being representative of their own areas, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hit Me Up Wih A Donation, Y'all..So I Can Fight City Hall on Friday] Reference

My dictionary defines 'brink' as 'the point at which something, typically an unwelcome or disastrous event, is about to happen.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Many Brinks Until There's Nothing Left to Lose?] Reference

To Scy I say that this "brink" we are crawling away from appears to abut a gaping chasm that we are scrabbling for with alarming alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Report: Nearly 25\% of Ohio children under 5 on 'brink' of hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference

The Liberals inherited a system on the 'brink' of two-tier health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

No fixed time for it but talk from the Greens is using the words 'brink' and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

This ... by The Salesman GM on 'brink' of bankruptcy: Its time to let it go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Car Advice | News Blog] Reference

The country was on the "brink" of depression, Michelle Obama explained, and Barack pulled it back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Spectator] Reference

NOT on the "brink" - not even close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hit Me Up Wih A Donation, Y'all..So I Can Fight City Hall on Friday] Reference

Both sides pulled back from the brink -- for the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja Vu All Over Again] Reference

Globally, airlines like Varig and SAS teetered on the brink of insolvency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flight Paths: A New Math] Reference

But as the financial system returned from the brink, banks paid back billions in TARP funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Birder’s Guide to D.C.] Reference

By the late 1990s, tensions had risen so much that the two countries were on the brink of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meddle Nettle] Reference

PHOTO: 'To the brink': Pirated music on sale in Shenzhen, trade representative KantorTRADE WAR?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Fight Music] Reference

Now the nation's prisons, which were already considered overcrowded, are on the brink of chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jailhouse Shock] Reference