A Ticking Clock

The clock is ticking.

The clock is ticking.

The clock was ticking.

So the clock started ticking.

The nuclear clock is ticking.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

The clock is still ticking.

My clock is ticking. Okay, let's stop.

My alarm clock's ticking is too loud.

The sociological time bomb may simply continue ticking.

For the first time, a political clock is ticking for Hamas.

The climate bomb is ticking, and there is a palpable sense of urgency among policymakers.

It's only when I can't sleep at night that the ticking of the clock bothers me.

It's only when I can't sleep at night that the ticking of the clock bothers me.

Outsiders must remind America that its pension system is a ticking time bomb that must be defused.

The four month clock began ticking on May 3, following the first meeting of Iraq s new parliament.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly defined the upcoming referendum as a ticking time bomb.

KA And there was therefore this ticking clock, because Giuliani was obviously out three months after that.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

If this idea stands, Russian minorities from the Baltic to the Crimea may turn out to be ticking time bombs.

Neither would it have stopped the global saving glut from turning into a ticking time bomb for the world economy.

So, every time my heart would beat I'd hear the beep beep beep beep, you know, the ticking, really loud.

There is no way of controlling the levels of this hazardous gas, making the dump quite literally a ticking bomb.

But unskilled workers incomes are not keeping pace with overall economic growth, and the resulting social strains are a ticking bomb.

Evangelos Meimarakis The refugee crisis is a ticking time bomb that we will be forced to deal with after our election victory.

There s a ticking clock, he says. Everybody who has something to contribute needs to step up to the plate and get started now.

I don t think you can learn to be a journalist from a weekend seminar or by ticking off a series of multiple choice answers.

Maybe the answer is that the clock starts ticking on the five years when the crisis is fully over, which is not yet true in Europe.

More important, with the clock ticking on default (which could come as early as July), the Greek authorities need to persuade their partners through action, not promises.

In this tangled knot of regional wars, crises, and conflicts, Iran s nuclear ambitions look like a ticking time bomb and plenty of new dynamite is being accumulated throughout the region.

All at once we seem to hear two demographic time bombs ticking the continuing population explosion in parts of the third world, and the astonishing rate of aging in the first world.

But when the bank announced a first half loss of 3.6 billion ( 4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.

The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

This is not to say that unskilled workers are actually being made worse off by globalization in absolute terms the vast majority are actually breaking even or better. But unskilled workers incomes are not keeping pace with overall economic growth, and the resulting social strains are a ticking bomb.

Back in April, G 20 leaders accepted that investing in a low carbon infrastructure, particularly energy services, is key to a truly sustainable economic and environmental future. In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G 20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.