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Walking time-bomb.
A person whose behaviour is erratic and totally unpredictable is a walking time-bomb.
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Many film critics have argued that this creates a very suspenseful experience for viewers as they wait for the time bomb to explode (Comito, 1986; D'Angelo, 2012; Stubbs, 1985), and has been theorized to specifically guide attention to the car: Fig. 1 Frames illustrating important shots in the 3 minute 12 second clip from the film Touch of Evil (Welles & Zugsmith, 1958).
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In late 2003, Mad Mikey and Rory Fox defeated Quiten Lee and The Human Time Bomb for the Heartland Wrestling Association in what turned out to be Lockwood's final match.
Federici came up with the idea for Time Bomb while working with Lulu, aka Lulu Kennedy-Cairns of British singing fame.
But what makes drew attention to the claim is the perennially chronic number of young blacks that can't find work, and the fact that the Congressional Black Caucus, the National Urban League, and the NAACP have sounded the warning bell for months about the ticking time bomb of high black unemployment.
The National Strategy was endorsed in 1999 with the Federal health minister calling for the country to 'Defuse the diabetes time bomb!' and stating that 'Australians are facing a diabetes epidemic within 10 years if immediate changes are not made to our lifestyle and diet' (Australian Government 1999).
For those familiar with the ticking time bomb scenario, the sidestepping of human rights or civil liberties often work best when rushed.
Hattoy wound up working for the Clinton administration--a time bomb in the White House, the New York Times called him--but Hillary Clinton was a friend and spoke at Hattoy's memorial in April 2007.
The demography of the United States is a ticking time bomb for the Republicans.
There is another important consequence, which, for Mukwege is a "time bomb": the babies.
And though the court will nominally decide whether President Obama's major executive action on immigration – which limited the deportation of undocumented immigrants to those with felony convictions and without dependents with the right to remain – was legal, the decision is a potential time bomb for the Republican Party, whose elites remain concerned about their shrinking demographic base.
But with the Olympic Games in Beijing approaching, the issue increasingly looked like a time bomb for the authorities, and they scurried to defuse it.
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