Cordier, the Vietnam POW, opposes torture in all circumstances -- even the "ticking bomb" scenario.
Which means the issue once described by the foreign secretary as a ticking bomb is ticking rather louder.
William Hague once warned David Cameron that Europe was "a ticking bomb" which could blow up the Conservative party.
All that is certain is that the logic of the ticking bomb leads down a slippery slope where the state is licensed in the name of the greater good to trample on the hard-won rights of any one and therefore all of its citizens.
The ticking time bomb in the American Dream is one little phrase: the pursuit of happiness.
If you discard all financial implications, then Europe is a social ticking time bomb.
Rodriguez knew the tapes were potentially a ticking time bomb and wanted to destroy them.
It scared me and although my numbers (cholesterol etc) were decent, I was a ticking time bomb.
But too many regulations could be the ticking time bomb that harms the Democrats in the next two elections.
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On paper, it appeared to counselors that Marsar was a ticking time bomb.
Eldercare is a ticking time bomb, especially in countries where filial piety is tightly woven into the cultural value system.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes described the agreement between Mr Emery and Mr House as a "ticking time bomb".
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This is why I have called the concussion damage in football and other collision sports a ticking time bomb and undiagnosed health epidemic.
Your precious printer might seem innocuous but, in reality, it could be a ticking time bomb just waiting for some hacker to trigger it.
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Top it all off with a career, a spouse and a social life, and it could make any woman feel like a ticking time bomb.
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It would be 10 more years before this ticking time bomb went off, bringing with it the full force of a decade's worth of alleged underpayments and penalties.
Analysts have long been worried about the ticking debt bomb.
If the case for a war on Iraq is persuasive on ticking-bomb grounds (as I believe it is), so is the case for allowing torture under very special conditions.
Thereby both revenues and profits are inflated in the short term, though it leaves a ticking time bomb in the form of the expenditure that has to be accounted for in later years.
When Ken Lay returned to being CEO of Enron in August 2001, he was told in no uncertain terms that Enron was the functional equivalent of a ticking time bomb--the looming losses were that severe.
The excessively low interest rates, unsustainable growth and massive leveraging over the last 30 years created a ticking time bomb that was set off in 2008 by the bundling and 30-1 leveraging of subprime mortgages.
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Last year's subprime-fueled gridlock in the credit markets even spread to high-quality debt, however, as investors realized that the re-packaging and re-distribution of risky loans could signify a ticking time bomb in all corners of credit.
It's like the cartoon, right, you're sort of standing there and somebody hands you a ticking time bomb and it explodes, and you've got all this gunpowder on your hands, and you didn't construct the bomb, but you're holding it.
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The American dream is in peril from the confluence of sky rocketing deficits, high unemployment, and the ticking time bomb of an aging baby boomer generation, with its coincident increase in the burden of entitlements as a percentage of GDP.
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