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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Greek Time Bomb

The Liquidity Time Bomb

The Snowden Time Bomb

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.

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.

Defusing the Syrian Time Bomb

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.

It s Time to Ban the 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.

It is time to give up the fantasy of an Islamic Bomb, and it is past the time to rein in Pakistan's rogue bomb makers.

The clock is ticking.

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

The nuclear clock is ticking.

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

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

There is still time to react by demonstrating strong leadership and prioritizing growth over short sighted policies but that time is limited and the clock is ticking.

The Taliban must not be allowed to bomb Afghanistan back in time.

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

My alarm clock's ticking is too loud.

Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb.

The growing NCD and CVD burden is a time bomb for world health.

I still am. But the clock is ticking.

LONDON Some fine ideas are rather like a beautiful object with a time bomb inside.

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

Perhaps a time bomb has been planted under the thrones of Arab potentates kings, emirs and presidents.

And so, barring a miracle, the time bomb within post war Europe s beautiful ideal is about to explode.

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

Though this was the first time the Soviets had been officially given information about the atomic bomb, Stalin was already aware of the bomb project, having learned about it (through espionage) long before Truman did.

The Vanishing Bomb

For the US, North Korea illustrates how a poor but ambitious country developed the bomb by gaming talks and gaining time.

Stopping a Dirty Bomb

The Government Debt Bomb

Gaza Google bomb says

Are you the BOMB?

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.