“on the brink of collapse”簡單造句，on the brink of collapse造句子

Within a day of Lehman going bust, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, was on the brink of collapse and by early October so was Royal Bank of Scotland.

The economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.

The comprehensive realignment of Tarim and Heihe rivers has saved the ecological environment on their lower reaches that was on the brink of collapse.

Not quite two years ago, oil was $10 a barrel and the cartel was on the brink of collapse. Now the oil price is well above $30 a barrel, and it shows little sign of coming down. But history warns against such hubris.

But in 2008 stocks of Alaskan pollock shrank by half, leaving what is believed to be the world's largest food fishery poised on the brink of collapse.

She was jealous and humiliated, and emotionally, she was on the brink of collapse.

The stock market was on the brink of collapse.

Though less than forty years old, the health of the body is on the brink of collapse.

Last October, when the global financial system was on the brink of collapse, the gold price actually fell: dropping 17 per cent in dollars and 8 per cent translated into sterling.

Now, just a few years after the American auto industry teetered on the brink of collapse, America’s great manufacturers of yesterday have emerged as some of the great manufacturers of today.