| 词汇 | brinksmanship |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | brinksmanship noun[ U ] us/ˈbrɪŋks·mənˌʃɪp/ politics & government taking a dangerous political situation as far as it will go without failure Examples of brinksmanshipbrinksmanship In 2013 alone, the federal government couldn't evade a stupid, counterproductive budget sequester, a government shutdown, and brinksmanship with the debt ceiling. From Foreign Policy The first is with the kind of brinksmanship budgetary politics that has now become normative. From CNN The negotiations can lead to brinksmanship and bad blood. From Ars Technica European integration has always depended upon a certain kind of historical brinksmanship. From The New York Review of Books The process happend over a year of high drama, brinksmanship, anti-trust accusations, lawsuits -- some threatened and one real -- to forge a compromise between the unsecured and secured creditors. From Billboard There is usually financial brinksmanship. And let's do it without the brinksmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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