And progress is essential to keep things from collapsing like a house of cards.
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The Irish press has likened these turnabouts to the collapse of a house of cards.
Except what happened was, is that that growth was built on a house of cards.
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It could have acted on warnings that bankers were financing a house of cards, critics claim.
In other words, Enron went bankrupt because Mr Fastow was a crook, not because it was a house of cards.
So to say that Pakistan at the moment is like a house of cards is probably trying to over-simplify the situation.
And then it all culminated in a house of cards that collapsed in the most destructive financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Contrarians have nonetheless painted a misleading picture of climate science as a house of cards teetering on the edge of a hockey stick.
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Again, the defendants argue that this is all rubbish, a house of cards that can be demolished by close scrutiny of the data.
As I said, this is a house of cards, and all of that rubble and some of these are tremendously large pieces of steel.
But it turned out when you actually got in there and started looking at what they were doing, they were building a house of cards.
They look into his character and see a house of cards.
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That contributed to pension funds chasing a lot of risky investments that promised these high returns that, in fact, were built on a house of cards.
And it looked, for a lot of people, like, well, the economy seems to be growing -- but it was all built on a house of cards.
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The entire firm came around to believing the great mortgage bubble was a house of cards ready to collapse, based on delinquencies, no-doc loans, fraud, and more.
They're telling the world they've done nothing wrong, and that Judge Jackson's ruling will collapse like a house of cards when it gets to the Supreme Court.
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It really is a beautiful idea, and I remain a big fan, but at this point the whole thing is beginning to look frighteningly like a house of cards.
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They fold like a house of cards.
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Yet she noted also that how to catch the passage of time in a still image is an old problem, one that Chardin was exploring over 200 years ago when he painted a boy making a house of cards.
Leave a precarious house of cards that will collapse from a single downtick.
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For many people, the mere fact of Enron's collapse is evidence that Mr Skilling and his old mentor and boss, Ken Lay, who died between his conviction and sentencing, presided over a fraudulent house of cards.
The incident raises questions about his future, according to William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
Netflix expects to build on the momentum by adding as many as 2.1 million more subscribers in the current quarter, which will include the release of a highly anticipated TV series called "House of Cards" made exclusively for the company, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif.
But BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield thinks that if House Of Cards is a success, Netflix could also start demanding a fee from the broadband suppliers that plug their fat pipes into our homes and let us stream House Of Cards in the first place.
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The killing of Mr Yassin is a great gust in the PA's house of cards.
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