Sentence examples of "bord" in French with translation "brink"

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Nous étions au bord du précipice. We stood on the brink of a cliff.
En 1939, comme en 1914, le monde était au bord de la guerre. In 1939, as in 1914, the world was on the brink of war.
La crise des missiles de Cuba a placé le monde au bord de la guerre nucléaire. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
En raison de la russification totale en Biélorussie, la langue biélorusse est au bord de l'extinction. Due to total russification in Belarus, the Belarusian language is at the brink of extinction.
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