Sentence examples for financial bombs from inspiring English sources

As financial bombs exploded around us, the head of Travelers succeeded with financial simplicity, a lesson to be remembered (see p. 70).

And all week, it seemed that one financial bomb after another was exploding.

That evening European finance ministers meeting in Brussels armed a financial bomb to deter speculators threatening the stability of the euro (see article).

"Certainly Tony Abbott said on 6 September last year there would be no cuts to the ABC but in December he copped the financial bomb," the NSW Nationals senator John Williams told ABC TV on Tuesday.

The European Central Bank put Ireland on notice last week that defaulting on payments to the bondholders could lead to dire financial consequences, the equivalent of a financial "bomb" in the Irish economy, according to Ireland's transport minister, Leo Varadkar, who made the comments over the weekend on an Irish television program.

The trip is part of a campaign intended to bolster his credibility as a politician and to counter what his aides call the fictional portrayals of him as a financial bomb-thrower in Greece's mainstream news media, controlled by the so-called oligarch families of privilege in the country who fear Syriza's ascent to power.

Thanks also to an infusion of private cash and federal funds, Bruno Barth Sobral, an economics professor at Rio's State University, said the Rio government would not be left with a financial bomb as was the case with the Panamerican Games and the World Cup, but he said poor planning meant the city's short-term economic boost from the mega-events would not maintain momentum in the long run.

She's not, however, embarrassed by "Aloha," the Cameron Crowe drama she costarred in with Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone earlier this year that was a critical and financial bomb.

Greece demonstrably did not; its practice of borrowing money to cover recurring costs was a financial bomb just waiting for a trigger, which the subprime mortgage loan fiasco provided.

Pootie Tang was actually written and directed by none other than Louis C.K. While it's now considered a cult classic, in 2001, it was a critical and financial bomb.

As a former Treasury Secretary, Geithner can be direct: "They... strap a financial bomb to their chests and try to extort a ransom in exchange for agreeing not to blow up the economy".