Sentence examples for snowball from inspiring English sources

At this point, things will snowball out of control.

In a foreword to the report, Carne said: "In very complex projects sometimes simple things go wrong and these can snowball in short periods of time to become major issues.

Pilots who fear losing their jobs over mild depression will go out of their way to hide it from the airline, perhaps allowing the problem to snowball into something more severe.

Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, Grange has received rave notices from Robert Parker, the world's most influential wine critic, who is based in America.In this section Dutch capped Scaling heights Smokescreens Sometimes a snowball is art Taste buds Down Under In search of icons ReprintsBut while lauding Grange, Mr Parker has often been cruelly dismissive of many of Australia's other efforts.

"Once a few people in the community give a lead, things snowball and there is now less crime for us to tackle".The locals also learned that the dubious-looking brown people were doctors, architects, electricians and the like.

In one small vitrine a flat-faced hellebore covered in diamonds and violet sapphires rests alongside its case a round snowball made from a smoky rock-crystal studded with diamond snowflakes; apt for a flower that is also called the Christmas rose.

To prove the point, Daniel Green, the editor of International Comet Quarterly, has drawn up a list of the exotic terms ("ice dwarf", "interplanetary small body", "icy planetesimal") devised by astronomers reluctant to use the word "planet" in connection with the distant snowball.

Presumably the thousands of MBA graduates turned out by Tuck, Booth, Darden, Harvard, Haas, Stanford and Columbia the seven American schools in the top ten of The Economist's most recent rankings are contributing to this rolling snowball of mediocrity Mr Haque describes.

So far, the signs are mixed.In this section Xi who must be obeyed How to fix Obamacare Chasing a rolling snowball Too reliant on the few Paris via Montreal ReprintsTaking on the partyIt may well be that the decision to promote Mr Xi as a single personality at the expense of the group was itself a collective one.

He spent much of last winter building balls in the Highlands only to have them melt in the City, as well as on the web at www.eyestorm.com.In this section Dutch capped Scaling heights Smokescreens Sometimes a snowball is art Taste buds Down Under In search of icons Reprints.

It is possible literally to find one plant in a billion.Such gains are likely to snowball.