Sentence examples for tick- from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile David Cameron's approval rating continues to tick downwards, with 28% approving compared to 29% who don't in the last poll.

In the end I have to concede that Lynton Crosby and the young Republicans who came to help David Cameron's campaign know more about what makes Britain tick than I do.

Tourism is what makes the island tick these days, although thankfully it is of the understated variety.

"An organic way of life that's evolved over all these years is going to be destroyed by a man in a suit because we don't tick the boxes," Cahalane said.

It is relatively easy too to tick off all the lower league grounds a club might visit in the course of its cup runs, and though it takes a hardier streak to follow a team deep into Europe, plenty of fans will be doing it.

The document opened in Word, and I watched the page count tick up as my computer ascertained the extent of the text.

Instead, he has lurched pathetically, hopelessly from one failed relationship to the next, his biological clock going tick-tock-tick-tock.

As in high street banking and lending the world over, the computerised box-tick system has replaced the individual.

These interventions need to dive into the heart of the process of technological development: more than the basic tick-box compliance, but tools that can actually alter the pathway of the technologies being assessed.

We run the risk of viewing workplace diversity as nothing but a numbers game; an activity in tick-boxing to make us feel better about ourselves as more "responsible" organisations.

These new safe staffing guidelines show that slowly the tick-list mentality is changing, but they are not without problems.