Those animals were in danger of dying out.

It is an endangered species.

Some wild animals are on the verge of extinction.

Phil Borges on endangered cultures

Historically, extreme poverty has afflicted many of the community s members.

While some languages are critically endangered, many others are alive and well.

In the case of sharks and rays, a recent survey indicates that close to one third of the 64 ocean living species are on the verge of extinction.

Of the world's species, 12 of birds, 24 of mammals, and 30 of fish are either vulnerable or in immediate danger of extinction.

Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.

For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

Endangered elephants

Indeed, many media were on the brink of extinction some time ago, there were problems last year, even but now media are back to their feet.

The fact that Japan's minority languages, such as the Ainu language and Ryukyuan languages, are in danger means that these languages are on the verge of extinction.

In Teddy Roosevelt s time, saving a species involved little more than declaring it illegal to hunt and protecting a place where it could live.

1. Enforced or involuntary disappearances

Is Mexico Disintegrating?

The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

We're on the brink of war.

Shotter, D. C. A.

In the last three or so years the space for independent media in the country has shrunk markedly, with pro opposition papers and media delving into the conflict in the Kurdish speaking east teetering on the brink of extinction.

Determined to prevent enforced disappearances and to combat impunity for the crime of enforced disappearance,

Israel is effectively demanding the disappearance of Palestinian identity.

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Violence prevails in Chilapa forced disappearances and skinned bodies About the lack of mainstream media coverage of the news, user Yorch remarked And why are the disappeared of Chilapa ignored?

A large asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Many kinds of animals are threatened with extinction.

Victims of habitat destruction driven in part by palm oil production, Sumatran elephants are now considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Kashmir is still on edge.

The man was on the brink of death.

He was just on the verge of going to sleep.

She was on the verge of killing herself.

The country's economy is about to collapse.

Tom is on the verge of dying.

She passed the test by the skin of her teeth.

Tom was almost in tears.

Tom was close to tears.

In February UNESCO presented the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, giving an accurate and worrying description of the languages considered endangered (about 2,500).

Fraser Island, QueenslandThe Butchulla language also suffered during this time, almost leading to its extinction in the 20th century due to governmental policies and missionary groups that prohibited it.

The Asian Human Rights Commission demanded an end to the impunity

Other scientists are debating his theory about the disappearance of dinosaurs.

This species is critically endangered.

We made this documentary... in order to document with love part of the graffiti which disappeared or are about to disappear due to the new urban concepts implemented in our country, primarily in Skopje.

Joshua Walters On being just crazy enough