to the brink of war

na pokraj, sklonek války

But the Czech crisis of September 1938, which took Europe to the brink of war, did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation. (BNCI)

Bush on Sept. 6 accepted an Iraqi offer to broadcast on Iraqi television, which he did on Sept. 16 in a prepared videotaped address warning that Iraq" stands isolated and alone", and had been brought to" the brink of war" because Saddam Hussein had misled his people into invading Kuwait. (BNCI)

Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty, which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978...(BNCI)

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