Brinksmanship

For one thing, Russia and China both routinely engage in aerial brinksmanship.

He co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, which has used political brinksmanship - under threat of government shutdowns and even a national default on the debt - to bend centrist and establishment Republicans farther to the right.

In 2011, credit score rankings company S&P downgraded the nation’s prized AAA ranking as a result of “political brinksmanship” of its debt ceiling deliberations.

One thing that won’t help reduce the debt, however, is a financial crisis caused by debt ceiling brinksmanship.

The opening scene of gun-toting, beer-guzzling, tattooed dissidents spewing expletives at the world is the perfect McGuffin for a provocative drama soaked in racial brinksmanship.

Brinksmanship: One party aggressively pursues a set of terms to the point at which the other negotiating party must either agree or walk away.

But as "peaceful" as this annexation was, and as just as it may have seemed to many Hungarians, it was a dividend of Hitler's brinksmanship and threats of war, in which Hungary was now inextricably complicit.