At some point, the ticking time bomb will explode, and the growth rate will crash.

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

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

In view of the foreseeable demographic risks from pension entitlements, a time bomb may now have been set ticking.

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

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

The economic situation, as painted this morning by the Special Representative to the Secretary General, could be a ticking bomb and should be diffused as soon as possible.

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.

The clock is ticking.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly defined the upcoming referendum as a ticking time bomb. She also made it clear, however, that the outcome, independence for the South, is inevitable.

The nuclear clock is ticking.

Until this happens, Palestinian terrorist groups represent a ticking time bomb for the peace process, posing a direct threat not only to the innocent Israelis that they target but to the rekindled hopes of both peoples.

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

My alarm clock's ticking is too loud.

Until this happens, Palestinian terrorist groups represent a ticking time bomb for the peace process, posing a direct threat not only to the innocent Israelis that they target but also to the rekindled hopes of both peoples.

I still am. But the clock is ticking.

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.

The consumable pusher makes the bomb more a uranium fission bomb than a hydrogen fusion bomb.

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

The only sound to be heard was the ticking of the clock.

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

As the room fall silent, only the ticking sound of an old clock could be heard.

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

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

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When they bomb a place, they wait for us to get there, and they bomb again, he says.

Iran, after all, is not building an Islamic bomb. It is building an Iranian bomb, or, worse yet, a Shia bomb that Arab leaders must be more resolute in trying to stop.

The radioactive material would not be useful for a fission bomb, but could be used in a dirty bomb.

See, Human Rights Watch, Ticking Time Bombs NATO's Use of Cluster Munitions in Yugoslavia, May 1999, p. 3.

That fighter plane dropped a bomb.

That fighter plane dropped a bomb.

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The bomb has not been defused.