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And there has been more than enough brinkmanship to go around.

There is more than a little brinkmanship in this approach.

If it is just another act of political brinkmanship, that should become clear within a few weeks.

Somehow they'd found out and life was a kind of brinkmanship.

I will not participate in a game of economic brinkmanship.

Brinkmanship was one of the steps prior to the point where war would actually break out.

But this was Albany, where political brinkmanship is a way of life.

It can be argued that Brinkmanship, in this case, went too far.

He'd give his nephew that, he was good at brinkmanship.

"I said no. "My own impression is that the second series really got to brinkmanship.

It's got an entire chapter on brinkmanship, which is what the next six weeks are going to be all about.

In any game of brinkmanship, it is possible that one side will collapse suddenly.

There is, inevitably, a certain amount of brinkmanship going on here.

"They are brilliant at this sort of brinkmanship," he said.

But lately, both sides seem to be playing at brinkmanship.

But such brinkmanship should not be the centerpiece of our trade relations.

That policy is called brinkmanship, new look, and massive retaliation.

"His most important message was that brinkmanship no longer works.

It's a game of brinkmanship but there are suggestions this morning that a deal may be close.

"They've tried to use brinkmanship and now their bluff has been called.

The export of democracy was not the primary reason for his brinkmanship.

"The American military pushed to brinkmanship then pulled back for some reason.

But is this simply a piece of brinkmanship to secure more concessions?

To be fair, newspapers and television are responsible for some of this brinkmanship.

The answers were satisfactory, so a third meeting took place, but not without a final bit of brinkmanship.

By now Americans are certainly no strangers to political brinksmanship.

It was the cardinal rule of brinksmanship, business or political.

To be sure, negotiators on both sides are playing brinksmanship.

Still, brinksmanship carries risks of its own for the Republicans.

The appeal, the persuasion, the brinksmanship none of it worked.

Off the slopes, their personalities tend toward brinksmanship as well.

We have to send a message that nuclear brinksmanship does not pay."

Last year's epic fight was a test of stamina and brinksmanship.

"I think it is extraordinary brinksmanship that should not apply to budgets."

Now, both sides are playing a game of brinksmanship, calculating how badly the other party needs a deal.

"It gets down to brinksmanship," said the executive, who spoke on condition that he not be named.

These bargains with images were a kind of cultural brinksmanship, and the American people blinked first.

The Perry report, if and when we get it, should take into account this kind of brinksmanship."

But an ongoing policy of brinksmanship is itself irrational.

Others believed the members were engaging in brinksmanship to get a dedicated source of funding.

The battle has been marked on both sides by brinksmanship and unusual bitterness.

As a practical matter, however, the Attorney General played legal brinksmanship.

But I'm wondering if it wasn't rather a clever piece of brinksmanship.

Thus, it appears that each side will test the other's skills at brinksmanship as a June 28 deadline approaches.

Mr. Singh's brinksmanship is also a matter of political survival.

This political game Republicans continue to play is just another round of the brinksmanship we have seen time and again this year.

"And I thought Peter was the one who loved brinksmanship.

"The coming political year is likely to be marked with gamesmanship and brinksmanship.

India and Pakistan, nuclear powers prone to brinksmanship, are at the edge of war.

Analysts said that at this juncture of negotiations each side was engaging in brinksmanship.