Chuan may have the support of the public for now, but he is living on borrowed time.
The Greek government might be living on borrowed time, but European finance ministers have just borrowed a bit more.
If Maduro somehow wins, and continues in the Chavez mold, then Pdvsa is not just on borrowed money, but borrowed time.
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You see, given the mess that is European sovereign finances, the European financial markets and thus the banks are on borrowed time.
Pretty soon, I needed to start repaying some of that borrowed time.
At this point the president is borrowing time on borrowed time.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bradshaw said that both the ferry and the helicopter which served the islands were "running on borrowed time" and might not be replaced commercially.
But the longer term trend has led some to believe the print industry is on borrowed time even if the famous brands and written journalism itself can adapt.
But they will also more quickly convince its members that their archaic system is living on borrowed time and mean that some competence is on hand when time is called.
"An awful lot of companies have been living on borrowed time and only some have faced up to their debt position, " says Deepak Sabharwal, president-director of chemicals group ICI Indonesia.
So Hyundai Engineering and Construction seems to be living on borrowed time as well as borrowed money, with about a fifth of its 5.2 trillion won debt falling due at the end of the year.
Others will read the statistics and realize that while he looks like the picture of health and has been in remission for six years, people diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer are living on borrowed time.
It has been rumoured for some time that the chairman, Nicola Cortese, has been considering a change and there has been a sense for a while at St Mary's that Adkins has been living on borrowed time.
The Big 12 Conference has been on borrowed time in a while, not the least of reasons that it lost two teams to other conferences, including Nebraska to the Big Ten, which now has 12 teams, leaving the Big 12 with 10.
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While male presenters entering their 50s could look forward to two more decades in the business, she said, women of a similar age felt they were "on borrowed time and that is just not right - it is a combination of age and sex discrimination".
Or to put it another way, the dramatic inversion of the Eurepo curve over just the past few weeks says something disturbing: banks are again fearful of becoming too financially dependent on each other, because they can't be certain which are healthy and which are living on borrowed time.
Mr. BILL PROENZA (Director, National Hurricane Center): I was concerned that there was nothing on the books and nothing in the process of our budget process that showed that indeed NOAA was planning for what I would consider the next generation replacement for QuikSCAT, especially since it's in on borrowed time as we speak.
In Scotland, a first-time buyer borrowed 2.88 times their income in 2012, lower than the 3.26 times income borrowed across the UK as a whole.
Scottish first-time buyers typically borrowed 79% of their property's value in the second quarter, up from 77% in the previous quarter but still below the average of 80% in the UK as a whole.
However, the three economists believe this had more to do with highly-borrowed investors' need at that time for cash than with their views about individual countries.
Remember that there is a finite supply of homes available at any given time, and it takes a substantial investment of time and (usually borrowed) money to produce new homes.
Both Norrie and Space are hoping that fellow students and new grads will be eager trade their free time for a break on their borrowed bottom lines.
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James Rosenwald, managing partner at Dalton Investments LLC, said this week he believes shareholders would fare better if Dell borrowed money and paid a large one-time dividend.
James Rosenwald, managing partner at Dalton Investments LLC, said he believes Dell shareholders could do better if the company borrowed money and paid shareholders a large one-time dividend.
It was a hard time for Tan, too, who had borrowed heavily to fund the group's expansion.
During a police interview he told police the last time he had used a gun was when he borrowed a firearm to shoot a fox about four years previously.
At the same time, they were shorting stocks and futures - selling borrowed shares and index contracts which they could buy back more cheaply.
He borrowed modern electioneering techniques from the US and, for the first time, offered a platform of policies that would directly help the rural poor, who make up the bulk of the electorate.
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