Some have called for torture in so called ticking bomb situations.

A time bomb is ticking in the Sahel Music

At some point, the ticking time bomb will explode, and the growth rate will crash.

The climate bomb is ticking, and there is a palpable sense of urgency among policymakers.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly defined the upcoming referendum as a ticking time bomb.

In view of the foreseeable demographic risks from pension entitlements, a time bomb may now have been set ticking.

Neither would it have stopped the global saving glut from turning into a ticking time bomb for the world economy.

But unskilled workers incomes are not keeping pace with overall economic growth, and the resulting social strains are a ticking bomb.

You put them all together, you mix them up in a bouillabaisse, and you have consumer confidence that's basically a ticking time bomb.

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Blanket ticking.

The clock is ticking.

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The economic situation, as painted this morning by the Special Representative to the Secretary General, could be a ticking bomb and should be diffused as soon as possible.

The nuclear clock is ticking.

So the clock started ticking.

Those ailments have spread beyond the boundaries of the great development divide and serve as a stern wake up call and a ticking bomb for us all to heed.

In this tangled knot of regional wars, crises, and conflicts, Iran s nuclear ambitions look like a ticking time bomb and plenty of new dynamite is being accumulated throughout the region.

The situation in South Africa is a ticking bomb liable to explode at any moment with catastrophic results, threatening to engulf the subregion once more in dark clouds of uncertainty.

I see my time is ticking.

You could hear the clock ticking...

My alarm clock's ticking is too loud.

My clock is ticking. Okay, let's stop.

My clock is ticking. OK, let's stop.

You know, I've got this ticking noise...

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly defined the upcoming referendum as a ticking time bomb. She also made it clear, however, that the outcome, independence for the South, is inevitable.

I still am. But the clock is ticking.

You're ticking in your head to bait me.

No, really. This ticking noise in my head...

Because the clock is ticking for all of us.

Bomb?

Until this happens, Palestinian terrorist groups represent a ticking time bomb for the peace process, posing a direct threat not only to the innocent Israelis that they target but to the rekindled hopes of both peoples.

The consumable pusher makes the bomb more a uranium fission bomb than a hydrogen fusion bomb.

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Until this happens, Palestinian terrorist groups represent a ticking time bomb for the peace process, posing a direct threat not only to the innocent Israelis that they target but also to the rekindled hopes of both peoples.

RD Bomb

Mac bomb

Drop bomb

Drop bomb

The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

For the first time, a political clock is ticking for Hamas.

Harry, the clock on that nine foot nuclear weapon is ticking.

The Vanishing Bomb

Secure the bomb!

A nuke bomb?