Sentence examples for imminent meltdown from inspiring English sources

The Italian president of the European Central Bank was known as Super-Mario even before he managed to single-handedly save the eurozone from imminent meltdown.

Despite last year's predictions of imminent meltdown, the global, new-look Man Booker prize (which is announced on Tuesday) is spookily similar to its old self.

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders may not be facing an imminent meltdown of the euro, but they are expected to confront an issue almost as agonizing when they meet here on Thursday: How far to integrate their budgets and banks.

Alongside the imminent Meltdown festival, a touring retrospective of her art, entitled Half-A-Wind, has just finished at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and will travel throughout Europe and the US in the coming months.

The prime minister insisted that the dramatic spike in A&E arrivals over the festive period represented "a short-term pressure issue" and criticised warnings of imminent meltdown in the NHS as scaremongering and irresponsible.

It was not deterred either by the commission's inability to organise advance polling in the capital Bangkok on January 26th or by the killing of one of the anti-government protest leaders.A dozen ambulances were parked outside the army club, which created the strange sense that the imminent meltdown of Thailand's democracy might have medical consequences.

It's either too hot or too cool, too bright or too gray, all conditions portending imminent climatic meltdown.

One commentator described the Economist's style as "so drily witty that it makes imminent financial meltdown sound like something that can be sat out with a martini".

Forget all that stuff about banking systems on the brink of collapse, or imminent ecological meltdown, come to MTV land, an eye-melting and ear-popping place where words like "ultimate", "Obama" and "awesome" are favoured over "credit-crunch" or "sense".

What we said: It's a fast-paced tale of espionage set in Germany in 1983, a time when the cold war was getting notably hotter, as the United States and the Soviet Union squared off and the threat of imminent nuclear meltdown became increasingly possible.

It's a fast-paced tale of espionage set in Germany in 1983, a time when the cold war was getting notably hotter as the United States and the Soviet Union squared off with the continued existence of the Berlin Wall a convenient sticking point and the threat of imminent nuclear meltdown increasingly possible.