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

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.

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

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.

Renchard is forced to aid her and two others escape the city in which he has strategically placed time bombs, set to go off in 24 hours.

One of the fundamental challenges in developing timely and practical programmes appropriate to each country is the ability to identify with accuracy the relevant technical assistance and training needs.

After all, as the London and Madrid bombings demonstrated, a cell phone is all that is needed to time an explosion or a series of explosions with deadly efficiency.

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 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.

Finally, firms with a higher CEO pay slice are more likely to provide their CEO with option grants that turn out to be opportunistically timed.

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.

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.

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless. To understand why, it helps to revisit the intellectual origins of the European Union.

Battles begin immediately when they are created, regardless of whether the teams are balanced and or the battle has the maximum allocation of players (however, the countdown in a timed match does not begin until at least one tank joins the battle).