Sentence examples for time bomb a from inspiring English sources
This anecdote is recounted in "Saudi Time Bomb?," a timely and informative documentary on the PBS series "Frontline" tonight about Saudi Arabia, where the members of King Faisal's family, the House of Saud, have long maintained power.
Action is required to defuse this ticking time bomb A greener, resource-efficient Europe.
And there I've been, a demographic disaster, a ticking time bomb, a walking road to ruin, ever since.
One way to think about risk, Dr. Goodman said, is that "each of us has a little ticking time bomb, a riskometer inside of us".
It's easy enough, in fact, to imagine the sort of scenarios that might lend themselves to such an act: a ticking time bomb, a killer believed to have anthrax and on the loose, a suspected dirty-bomb maker in a desolate location, terrorists with a bus full of children on a mountain top.
Poisonous nitrate fertilizers leaching into our rural wells and municipal drinking water supplies (where it combines into a super-toxic brew with pesticides) are a biological time bomb, a major cause of cancer, infertility, hormone disruption, and birth defects.
To remove the guesswork from this pear-shaped ticking time bomb, an Australian company has developed an "avocado time machine".
"I call his speeches time bombs," a papal aide once told me.
The question lingers like a time bomb with a long fuse, going unaddressed for months at a time.
A vaccine such as this in the real world would work like a time bomb--a mosquito would pick up the antibodies only after infecting an individual with malaria.
