We were told that the dominoes were already falling after Lehman and so emergency measures (bailouts) were necessary.
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Well, the dominoes upholding her brand integrity are beginning to fall.
Then the dominoes began to fall, starting with Hungary.
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Yet, here we sit without an energy policy, with 90 percent of American well-heads capped, wringing our hands over whether or not the dominoes will fall in the Middle East.
Very much a work of its time, it helped to define that uncertain period as the Communist dominoes fell and the West wondered what to be terrified of next.
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That said, the end of the wedge would become perilously thin if the tumbling dominoes of sovereign defaults destroyed investors' belief in the ability of Spain and - especially - Italy to honour their financial obligations.
What's the circuit breaker that would prevent the tumbling dominoes of bank and sovereign defaults?
The ad uses the metaphor of falling dominoes to convey the impression of a menace moving rapidly and almost inexorably across the globe, accompanied by an ominous voiceover.
The drip, drip, drip disappearance of the major industrialists, their businesses falling like dominoes, the economy deprived of innovators who did build that, is alluded to but never viscerally experienced.
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One teacher thought it was folding chairs brought in for a concert falling to the ground like dominoes.
The club is home to darts and dominoes teams and is the headquarters of the Anmer Mere Yacht Club, whose Latin motto translates as "Never make me sail".
Now, the couple sitting across from my husband and I at another artfully worn wooden table are playing dominoes, in what can only be described as an ironic manner, given no locals have played dominoes since the invention of fruit machines (slot machines as they are called in the US, also known as one armed bandits).
Justice John Paul Stevens added, I fear that the gun ban struck down today may well be the first of an unknown number of dominoes to be knocked off the table.
Mr Hussain, who worked at the BMW car plant and Dominoes Pizza in Cowley, was arrested after DNA was found on the girl's underwear, the jury heard.
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The Chinese understand that nuclear dominoes are not about to start falling when Washington is spending more of its own resources on the defense of South Korea and Japan.
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The EU is so committed to subverting Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem that even in the midst of its financial crisis, with EU economies seemingly collapsing like dominoes, sources say that the EU mission to Israel has just pledged at least a million euro to Ir Amim.
That was one tile in a tumble of dominoes that ended the career of Mr Bo, Chongqing's party secretary.
What is the probability of all those dominoes falling in that way?
More dominoes may fall in the emerging world, but the fate of the global economy stands on the shoulders of the American and West European economies, which account for about two-fifths of world output.
Contrast it with the chaebol, which have collapsed like dominoes recently after expanding recklessly and racking up huge debts.
Some of the older exiles, such as Carlos Trueba, a Cuban-born retiree playing dominoes in an outdoor park in Miami's Little Havana, object to the lack of ideological spine among the new arrivals.
With the cold war over, the United States no longer worries about red dominoes.
One after the other, California cities are falling to bankruptcy like dominoes.
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Or we might play out in the yard and play ball with the kids, or lay on the sofa and watch TV or play cards or play dominoes.
If large state dominoes start to fall and creditors are forced to the table, it could lead to rehashing of the widespread fears from 2008.
The latest gaming craze in sports bars and NBA locker rooms is dominoes.
Paul Barratt put Padiham ahead early on away at Stone Dominoes, but two goals either side of half-time saw the home side through to victory.
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