Sentence examples for time bomb in the form of from inspiring English sources

The extent of the turmoil has stunned much of Wall Street, but as Mr. Melcher's case makes clear, there were ample warning signs that a financial time bomb in the form of subprime mortgages was ticking quietly for months, if not years.

Thereby both revenues and profits are inflated in the short term, though it leaves a ticking time bomb in the form of the expenditure that has to be accounted for in later years.Cable & Wireless admitted that it booked revenues up front in most cases even though the leases of telecoms lines involved lasted up to 20 years.

THE chairman of America's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission recently suggested that Goldman Sachs had built a bomb, in the form of toxic securities, and then constructed a bomb shelter, by betting against the market.

Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

Hopkins chastised the "little sweaty jocks" for "sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians".

The model also illustrates the possible mechanism of massive activation of the strictosidine vacuolar pool upon enzyme-substrate reunion occurring during potential herbivore feeding constituting a so-called "nuclear time bomb" in reference to the "mustard oil bomb" commonly used to describe the myrosinase-glucosinolate defence system in Brassicaceae.

Dementia has been described as a "time bomb" in society.

"Rock Life" jettisons all hope of an explanation, declines to clarify what's "real" and what's not, and zooms off toward oblivion (in the form of a time bomb that may or may not exist).

These bridges are ticking time bombs in dire need of repair.

Dummy bombs were dropped on a target in the form of a ship by the American designer Glenn Curtiss on June 30 , 1910

As in Iraq, the most dangerous enemy, in the form of roadside bombs, can neither be engaged nor defeated.