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12 total sentences available.
In the United States, Adlai Stevenson criticized the willingness of John Foster Dulles to threaten atomic war in confronting the Soviet Union; such military brinkmanship, he said, could eventually lead to annihilation of both countries.
Source: tatoeba (3854075)
A frosty east-west relationship led to a sort of brinkmanship where both NATO and Russia flew military aircraft close to the other side's frontiers or even deliberately made brief incursions into the other side's airspace, either to test air defence capabilities or as part of a pattern of intimidation or coercion.
Source: tatoeba (3854076)
It's time to stop this brinkmanship.
Source: tatoeba (6200033)
The diplomat accused the other nation’s leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations’ shared border.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include adventurousness, appeasement, audaciousness, audacity, balance of power.
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