The closest analog I know of is when you suddenly become aware of a ticking clock.
This brings us to the thing that every second-term president since FDR has indeed faced: a ticking clock.
Although she admitted that she would have preferred to have more time to enjoy being married before delving into motherhood, she was mindful of the ticking clock.
Now, as debt negotiations continue to press on despite a ticking clock, McConnell is trying to persuade his own party of the seriousness of what will happen August 2.
This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.
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Is the clock ticking for James Murdoch and his influential seat on the GlaxoSmithKline board?
While Congress dickers on this issue, all these people hear is the ticking of the clock.
It is fun, isn't it, unless you the person actually trying to sign someone with the clock ticking down.
With the wedding clock ticking, the Westminster City Council is making a final push through the courts.
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But with the clock ticking down he was involved in a heated argument with his fellow goalscorer Materazzi.
That deal also set the clock ticking toward the now-notorious sequester, if a broader deficit-reduction deal wasn't put in place.
This set the clock ticking on their ten-month limit in the U.S. Yet the first Indians didn't show up until Halloween.
It's not like there's a clock ticking and then suddenly it's over.
And, with the clock ticking, if its time in town should end?
It also gets the five year clock ticking in case they want to use the earnings tax-free towards a first-time home purchase someday.
With the Olympic clock ticking, Rio does not have the time to build an extensive new metro system, or for that matter, the money.
If I had not taken the battery out of his wall clock before we began the interview you would just have heard the clock ticking.
With the clock ticking down on 2012, there should be urgency from lawmakers to get a deal done, but with our polarized electorate anything is possible.
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With the clock ticking (the Democratic VP candidate delivers a big speech next Wednesday) the announcement is at most days and at least a few hours away.
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With the clock ticking down, Bordeaux had their best two chances - but a combination of poor finishing and superb goalkeeping cost them their chance of a last-four berth.
Some people have asked me if investment advisers charge like lawyers do, with the clock ticking all the time and every single photo copy charged out to a particular client.
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You would imagine that, with the clock ticking, his priority would be to keep all his big guns happy and on message so that he can win even more silverware.
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Settled in his chambers around the corner from Turin's courts of justice, with a stately grandfather clock ticking in the background, Mr Grande Stevens appears every bit the establishment toff.
With the clock ticking down on his first term as prime minister, some argue he needs a clearer vision for the country to improve his chances of getting a second.
So, despite some effort to reach out to the party that now runs Congress, it is not at all clear that Mr Bush succeeded in slowing the clock ticking down his presidency.
Years later, as they were entering the winter of their lives, I sought both of them to speak about what it was like to be working, with the clock ticking, against such a disease.
After sifting and thinking, they recognized that because of the vehicle's finely tuned mechanics, its air-tight interior, air-tight exterior, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, the car drove so quietly and elegantly that, yes, the only thing one could hear was that clock ticking.
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With the clock ticking away on the deadline for the one year payroll tax cut ( this one, as it turns out, is a real deadline), Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are fighting to see who can outmaneuver each other.
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