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.
The ticking time bomb in the American Dream is one little phrase: the pursuit of happiness.
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.
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.
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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So-called "FX lending" is now being cited as one of the biggest threats to Eastern Europe's economies (see "Europe's Ticking Time Bomb"), and will also be hitting other Baltic states like Latvia and Lithuania, which weren't included in the RICS survey.
Mrs Spelman retorted that Labour "had two years in government from the time it agreed that the statement of principles would not be renewed and found no solution, leaving this government with a ticking time bomb in the same safe where there was no money left".
But there's a paradox buried inside Paul's rise in the Republican field, a time bomb ticking away.
If he withdraws the BSkyB bid, he will at least have defused one bomb ticking in his corner.
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Some senior commission officials fret about a ticking time-bomb of populism, waiting to be triggered by special-interest groups.
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