Nero's justice is proverbial.

Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.

Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.

But that is the proverbial exception that proves the rule.

Some of these projects were the proverbial bridges to nowhere.

You can always put your key under the proverbial mat.

Moreover, the Kurds are the proverbial dog that hasn t yet barked.

The Greek default has turned out to be the proverbial dog that didn t bark.

It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.

He's the proverbial sailor... but in his case it's a wife in every port.

And I remember that proverbial light going off in my head, thinking, Wait a minute.

That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view.

In fact, what if it's a symptom of a much deeper problem, the tip of a proverbial iceberg?

And I want to start by putting the proverbial elephant in the room and telling it like it is.

Every economy needs someone who can ensure that the proverbial punch bowl is taken away when the party gets out of hand.

Unfortunately, the proverbial Washington political gridlock leaves little hope for fixing the problem, adding to the impression of a giant with clay feet.

The proverbial aunt whom I've never seen... has proverbially gone to her rest... and left me a rich man, a very rich man.

While each of these shocks may not qualify as the proverbial tipping point, the combination and the context are disconcerting, to say the least.

If Pakistan s history is any indicator, his decision to impose martial law may prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel s back.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic.

The summit, after all, is not the proverbial silver bullet but the launch of a process and the indication of the collective will for change.

So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.

WASHINGTON, DC Sudan sits at the proverbial crossroads between potential peace and possible nationwide conflict, which would undoubtedly become the world s deadliest conventional war in 2011.

But many social democratic ideals, rooted in Marxist notions of social justice and equality, were thrown out, like the proverbial baby, with the bathwater of communism.

The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details. But prospects for a deal will hinge on resolving three broad issues.

Like the heat beneath the proverbial boiling frogs, the level of surveillance in Western democracies has been ratcheted up slowly but far faster than citizens can respond.

In the workplace, women had managed to break through the proverbial glass ceiling, and many held high ranking positions in both the Government and the private sector.

While waiting for the proverbial Godot, Yazid relies among other things on the support of the public cyberparc (National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Tech Parks) .

Even the country s proverbial inequality is beginning to shrink, albeit slowly, and lower middle class living standards are finally rising to where they should have been a decade ago.

If doctors, computer specialists, or engineers (let alone the proverbial Polish plumbers!) were allowed to move freely, the concentration of talent in the richest countries would most likely increase.

I think it was my longstanding desire to bring together my interest in art, science and philosophy that allowed me to be ready when the proverbial light bulb went on.

Economists and moralists have been united in believing that you should actually spend less than you earn in order to save for the proverbial rainy day or for old age.

I think it was my longstanding desire to bring together my interest in art, science and philosophy that allowed me to be ready when the proverbial light bulb went on.

Today, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Long known for its rhetorical faith in South South cooperation, India has begun putting its money where its mouth used to be.

Moreover, its recommendations take the form of the proverbial laundry list of reforms, and emphasize their complementary nature the imperative to undertake them all simultaneously rather than their sequencing and prioritization.

The US seems to have come as close as one can imagine to getting the proverbial free lunch except that, as economists are fond of pointing out, there is no such thing.

The proverbial dead cat bounce when freefall stops and inventories run out, causing output to pick up a bit was misinterpreted as evidence of a V shaped recovery sharply down and sharply back up.

In other words, the outright monetary transactions (OMT) scheme announced by ECB President Mario Draghi last July has served as the proverbial bazooka a gun so powerful that it does not need to be used.

But other organizations have dealt with similar issues the IMF needs to make the necessary changes, and, equally important, get the message out that the DSK incident was an aberration, not the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic. But if he looked inside the data packets, he would see very different content.

If more people in the health delivery space really working on some of these challenges in low income countries could start their design process, their solution search, from outside of that proverbial box and inside of the hospital

Eight of the top 10 performers in 2004 are either oil exporting countries or post conflict economies, with the latter s high annual growth rates explained mostly by the proverbial dead cat bounce the low base period over which growth is measured.

Nigeria is indeed truly delighted that at long last the proverbial light at the end of the long, tortuous and dark tunnel now appears to be in sight and that the birth of a new South Africa may indeed be only months away.

Even if you go for a walk in the proverbial woods, there is a company that manufactured the car that delivered you to the edge of the woods there's a company that manufactured the shoes that you have to protect yourself from the ground of the woods.

Every economy needs someone who can ensure that the proverbial punch bowl is taken away when the party gets out of hand. This is what independent central bankers are for, and that is why their independence from political interference has been enshrined in the European Treaty.