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brinksmanship
noun[ U ]
us/ˈbrɪŋks·mənˌʃɪp/
politics & government
taking a dangerous political situation as far as it will go without failure
Examples of brinksmanship
brinksmanship
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
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