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The clock is ticking for Usiminas. – Leonardo Correa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So, I'm supposed to somehow tell my kids that they are safe with 114 ticking time bombs essentially up on the hill above their homes, you want to talk about mad, mad doesn't describe what I'm feeling. – David Donah	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The clock is ticking and action is required and would be greatly appreciated. – The Republican governor	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To me, that was kind of like his third time dying because he passed when he started to get the dementia, when we found out about the ALS and it was even more rapid and degenerative and we knew eventually Son Gavin heart or lungs would go, it was like Son Gavin died again, because now the clock was ticking. Then when Son Gavin eventually passed, it was stunning. – Son Gavin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The clock starts ticking really right when they arrive. – Aaron Rippenkroeger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I just want an answer from the government, are the officials corrupt, or what? Why did they build a hazardous chemical warehouse near our home without telling us? Who would want to live next to a ticking time bomb? No one! – Luo Shuhui	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Coal waste facilities are ticking time bombs if they are not properly constructed to withstand large rainfall events, there have not been sufficient efforts to protect surrounding communities. – Donna Lisenby of Waterkeeper Alliance	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I thought, well time is ticking and we've got to get into this market, donna's offer was just so compelling and the fact that she offered 60 days of rent back for free, which is practically unheard of. – Donna DiNicola	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think six is manageable. There are a number of campaigns going on, we are not going to have huge orders from different places but there is enough incremental business to keep the line ticking over. – Chief Operating Officer Tom Williams	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is my central belief that the negotiations with Greece can still be successfully completed, the clock is ticking. There won't be a new list in Riga, but over the course of May it must finally be reached. – Thomas Wieser	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The clock is ticking. There won't be a new list in Riga, but over the course of May it must finally be reached, the liquidity situation in Greece is already a little tight, but it should be sufficient into June. – Thomas Wieser	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think we are reasonably close, the clock is ticking. If we do it, I've got to get out there. So I think we are looking at an announcement in the pretty near future. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 9 years ago
But my body was really bent out of shape after the boys were born, bouncing back feels impossible, but I know it’s important as a woman, and now a mommy, to not give up. I am determined to get my energy back and find balance for my body before these little guys starts walking, and before I go back to work… my clock is ticking! – Zoe Saldana	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Time is ticking away, so we don't have a lot of time, so we have really got to get to work. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is the kind of investment that is producing only unemployment and chaos. We are turning into ticking time bombs. – Tarek Tabl	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have made some progress but we still have a long way to go and the clock is ticking, we're going to find out whether or not Iran is willing to make the hard choices that are necessary. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
European markets remain buoyant, not just because of low yields but it seems that finally economic activity and confidence are ticking up from the lows. – Lex Van Dam	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It looks like where she stopped she did not want to go on the tracks but the proximity of the gate to her car, you know, it was dark -- maybe she didn't know she was in front of the gate, i said to myself, 'The clock is ticking here, the gate is down, the bells are ringing — what are you going to do here?'. – Rick Hope	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Every single one of these Takata air bags could be a ticking time bomb. – Ed Markey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. – Arthur L Caplan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never date a woman you can hear ticking. – Mark Patinkin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. – Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago

The clock is ticking for Usiminas.

– Leonardo Correa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So, I'm supposed to somehow tell my kids that they are safe with 114 ticking time bombs essentially up on the hill above their homes, you want to talk about mad, mad doesn't describe what I'm feeling.

– David Donah

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The clock is ticking and action is required and would be greatly appreciated.

– The Republican governor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To me, that was kind of like his third time dying because he passed when he started to get the dementia, when we found out about the ALS and it was even more rapid and degenerative and we knew eventually Son Gavin heart or lungs would go, it was like Son Gavin died again, because now the clock was ticking. Then when Son Gavin eventually passed, it was stunning.

– Son Gavin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The clock starts ticking really right when they arrive.

– Aaron Rippenkroeger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I just want an answer from the government, are the officials corrupt, or what? Why did they build a hazardous chemical warehouse near our home without telling us? Who would want to live next to a ticking time bomb? No one!

– Luo Shuhui

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Coal waste facilities are ticking time bombs if they are not properly constructed to withstand large rainfall events, there have not been sufficient efforts to protect surrounding communities.

– Donna Lisenby of Waterkeeper Alliance

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I thought, well time is ticking and we've got to get into this market, donna's offer was just so compelling and the fact that she offered 60 days of rent back for free, which is practically unheard of.

– Donna DiNicola

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think six is manageable. There are a number of campaigns going on, we are not going to have huge orders from different places but there is enough incremental business to keep the line ticking over.

– Chief Operating Officer Tom Williams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is my central belief that the negotiations with Greece can still be successfully completed, the clock is ticking. There won't be a new list in Riga, but over the course of May it must finally be reached.

– Thomas Wieser

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The clock is ticking. There won't be a new list in Riga, but over the course of May it must finally be reached, the liquidity situation in Greece is already a little tight, but it should be sufficient into June.

– Thomas Wieser

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think we are reasonably close, the clock is ticking. If we do it, I've got to get out there. So I think we are looking at an announcement in the pretty near future.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But my body was really bent out of shape after the boys were born, bouncing back feels impossible, but I know it’s important as a woman, and now a mommy, to not give up. I am determined to get my energy back and find balance for my body before these little guys starts walking, and before I go back to work… my clock is ticking!

– Zoe Saldana

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Time is ticking away, so we don't have a lot of time, so we have really got to get to work.

– Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is the kind of investment that is producing only unemployment and chaos. We are turning into ticking time bombs.

– Tarek Tabl

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have made some progress but we still have a long way to go and the clock is ticking, we're going to find out whether or not Iran is willing to make the hard choices that are necessary.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

European markets remain buoyant, not just because of low yields but it seems that finally economic activity and confidence are ticking up from the lows.

– Lex Van Dam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It looks like where she stopped she did not want to go on the tracks but the proximity of the gate to her car, you know, it was dark -- maybe she didn't know she was in front of the gate, i said to myself, 'The clock is ticking here, the gate is down, the bells are ringing — what are you going to do here?'.

– Rick Hope

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Every single one of these Takata air bags could be a ticking time bomb.

– Ed Markey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

– Arthur L Caplan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.

– Hannah Arendt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

– Tom Robbins

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

– Mark Patinkin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

– Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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