brinkmanship

How To Use brinkmanship In A Sentence

• 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.
• South Korean critics claim such brinkmanship is shortsighted. No Pain, No Gain?
• Making British support conditional on renegotiation would be dangerous brinkmanship. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• 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.
• In an escalating situation neither side has much of a reputation for brinkmanship.
• For such a normally quick tempered and impatient people they have shown themselves adepts at procrastination and brinkmanship.
• Making British support conditional on renegotiation would be dangerous brinkmanship. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• The ancient British art of industrial brinkmanship is risky for managements and unions that try to force each other to blink first.