Brinkmanship

Fitch's move came two months after Joe Biden and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reached a debt ceiling agreement that lifted the government's $31.4trillion borrowing restriction, ending months of political brinkmanship.

NEW YORK (AP) — The first alarm bells are starting to go off on Wall Street as brinkmanship over raising the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt limit raises worries in financial markets.

On some occasions, the brinkmanship with flying bombs proved lethal for civilians, most notably when 12 Druze teenagers and children were killed in an errant Hezbollah missile strike in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in August.

Should Europe be spooked by Putin’s new nuclear brinkmanship?

The second is that he has become arguably the only State Governor in Nigeria who displays sincere brotherliness, strategic brinkmanship and encompassing accommodation across public divides.

His warning came after Boris Johnson told European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen that the EU must 'significantly' shift its stance on fishing, for an agreement, as the brinkmanship continued.

The strategic causes of this latest brinkmanship remain shrouded.

And it evokes a mystery — one involving secret underground naval bases, high-tech submarines and Cold War nuclear brinkmanship.

His nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea seems to involve a belief that nuclear war might just be feasible as a means, short of a blood bath, to bloody Kim Jong-un’s nose.

President Trump today said he would be willing to meet without precondition with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, adding yet more confusion to the increasingly risky brinkmanship of recent weeks between the U.S. and Iran.

The rest of the country, while annoyed, has gotten enough used to this brinkmanship that they won’t hold it against the Democrats in significant amounts.

Brinkmanship is a type of "hard nut" approach to bargaining in which one party pushes the other party to the "brink" or edge of what that party is willing to accommodate.

Sadat had so long engaged in brinkmanship that his frequent war threats were being ignored by the world.