Sentences with phrase «as time bombs»

Many still dogs as uncontrollable animals, as time bombs...

With diphtheria as their time bomb, the team once again trained mice in auditory fear conditioning.

Eventually, I stopped thinking of my body as a time bomb and began, finally, to think of it as the very thing that lets me live a happy life.

Not exact matches

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Together, the explosions released 400 times as much radioactive fallout as the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

As iRobot's Joe Dyer told me while I was working on Sex, Bombs and Burgers, robotic automation always comes in on «cat's feet,» or one step at a time.

With these little - known ETPs as ticking time bombs and allegations of VIX manipulation, Chilton said he would not be surprised if investors lost some confidence in the system.

The blast, 3,000 times as strong as the bomb used on Hiroshima, broke windows 560 miles away, according to Slate.

The best part was the burst of butter that hit a few seconds after each bite, as though it were packed with timed - release butter bombs.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

It features a «dial - a-yield» capability - setting the weapons to deliver as much as 340 kilotons (depending on the version), about 20 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.

The future of European entrepreneurship is a question mark, however, as several political time bombs have yet to detonate.

I don't see it as a ticking time bomb.

Circling back to the mall / REIT ticking time - bomb, while the Fed can keep the stock market propped up as means of preventing an immediate nuclear melt - down in U.S. pensions (all of which are substantially «maxed - out» in their mandated equities allocation), the collapse of commercial mortgage - back securities (CMBS) will have the affect of launching a nuclear sub-missile directly into the side of the U.S. financial system.

As I have commented on several times previously, Deutsche Bank's balance sheet is a ticking financial nuclear time bomb.

Personally, I think they're just as crazy to die as the not - so - smart bombs — but at the same time I know they rely on the fact most Americans are too civilized to do what we all would * like * to.

Experts describe it as a «time bomb».

George Weigel, author of John Paul II's biography, Witness to Hope (HarperCollins), described the lectures as a «theological time bomb» set to go off sometime this century.

They talk about an attack on religious teachings while speaking at an NRA event about how abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men, women, children, as well as innocent pregnant women with unborn babies.

Well Muneef... maybe every time we see a bunch of muslims burning an american flag or a bible we should just drop an H - Bomb on them as retaliation.

General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

In any sort of mind, it seems, an idol can be formed of ideas, and dive - bombing distractions can effectively shoo - off those who would examine or question, until such time as access to wondering is closed.

yeh, as rushdie wrote... satanic verses... the real satan of our time... and the terrorists who promote via suicide bombings

Especially in this case, NOT INSANITY, he took time to plan this, build bombs, and intended to harm as many people as he could, we should focus on the victims, the families, watts to prevent similar tragedies, and STOP GIVING THESE PSYCHOTIC PROPLE THEIR UNDESERVED ATTENTION.

Describing what it's been like to be a Christian in the past year in Egypt, Archbishop Angealos said: «It's in a very painful time, it's the first time in our contemporary history we've seen bombings of churches - we've had three churches bombed in this last year, we've had churches attacked, people killed by gunfire attacks on worshipers as they were leaving, Christians attacked just for being christian, in their homes, in their shops and on the street.

To attack the President of the country at a time when the USA needs to close ranks and stand together to consolidate the enormous strides his intelligent and respectful approach has achieved in building bridges, when her party's period in government bombed them, Sarah Palin comes across as a pitifully inadequate anachronism from the times of the Far West.

Frankly, I find it laughable that anyone still points to the appendix as a putative design feature, i.e. our internal time bomb.

She is depicted as being literally fine until people in her life turn her into a ticking time - bomb.

As much as I love it, the time has come for my formerly favourite warm goat cheese salad to step out of the spotlight and make room for this flavour bomAs much as I love it, the time has come for my formerly favourite warm goat cheese salad to step out of the spotlight and make room for this flavour bomas I love it, the time has come for my formerly favourite warm goat cheese salad to step out of the spotlight and make room for this flavour bomb!

And, as we discussed last time, food manufacturers, supermarkets, and marketers are not friends to a parent's nerves, making sure that their brightly colored sugar bombs are strategically placed so that rugrats are inexorably drawn to them.

Alexis holds onto the ball far too long to help the team, he is all over the pitch instead of spending quality time in and around the box, great enthusiasm but detrimental to the team as much as Alex Song bombing forward and leaving his primary position unattended.

Please cool down ok please i know its a pain in the neck watching but remember the day will come where arsenal will get a striker and he will become truly exposed as to how poor he is.I really do feel sorry for some of our players because for them they are sitting on a ticking time bomb.

Ramsey needs to learn how to be disiplined in defence, when to time runs bombing forward and not at every chance as we have ozil in front of him who can find a needle in a haystack with a pass!

Wenger loves both full - backs to bomb forward at the same time, which ALWAYS gives us so many problems when teams counter, because the two CB's have no help, especially as we don't have an out - and - out DM to protect them.

Facing a 4 — 4 Indiana team a week after escaping from East Lansing with a last - play win (the Hawkeyes beat Michigan State on Stanzi's seven - yard TD connection to McNutt as time expired), Iowa needed that pair of clutch bombs from its quarterback, a slew of favorable calls from the officials and — with the Hoosiers leading 21 — 7 and lining up two yards from another touchdown in the third quarter — a miraculous interception in which the ball ricocheted four times among three players before landing in the hands of Iowa safety Tyler Sash, who dashed 86 yards for a touchdown.

Temple — that's 1 - 8, winless in the AAC Temple — took a 36 - 29 lead with two minutes left in the game, only to watch Blake Bortles torch the Owl secondary in the last two minutes for a tying touchdown and then a 64 - yard bomb to set up the game - winning field goal as time expired.

If our players have football brains, Ramsey will have learned that sometimes being a box to box midfielder means spending time defending in your own box, Gibbs and Chambers will have learned that they don't always need to bomb up and down the wings, Rociscky, BFG and Flamini will have learned that as senior members of the squad they have to step up and lead.

Jackson and C.J. Spiller figure to thrill fans as they go back and forth with backfield reps. Couple that with Ryan Fitzpatrick throwing bombs to Stevie Johnson and Vince Young hanging around — he'll be doing something, I guess — and it should be a fun time in Western New York.

The bomb site he played on as a lad is what we now know as Ashburton Grove... yes, the Emirates Stadium; how times have changed.

The brainchild of Danny Crossman, a British bomb disposal officer responsible for such lifesaving technologies as the bomb suit featured in the OscarTM - winning movie, The Hurt Locker, ShockboxTM consists of a miniature sensor with rechargeable battery, BluetoothTM wireless module and a sensor, which transmits data on hits to a player's helmet in real time to a smartphone, laptop or PDA on which the Shockbox app has been downloaded.

The rest of the time, you blog as usual — I just have to remember not to drop the f - bombs (like I do that so often!).

The last few times I tried nursing he regarded them as a curiosity — something to grab and poke rather than baby - bird dive - bomb at, like all those months before.

Now I realize that those signs are an SOS of sorts - as in, «Do yourself a favor and please stay the hell out of my way because there's a time bomb on board that that could detonate at any second and I have no control over any aspect of my life, least of all my driving.»

In a brief interview this afternoon, I asked King if he is going to be serving as presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo's attack dog, essentially buying the AG more time before he has to announce his candidacy and start throwing bombs himself.

I tried searching for opinion polling on internment, as I know opinion polls are still held about the US's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I only found information about opinion polling performed at the time internment was in place.

``... In our understanding the EC is not the place where bombs are manufactured neither is it a place where the president of the land resides for it to be classified as a security zone or enclave, our understanding is that we notified the police, engaged them and gave them ample time for them to put structures and measures in place to shepherd the demonstrators,» the convener of the group, David Asante said.

But for all the prominence of online social networks, they haven't been as critical to this year's primaries as some had predicted: from the Reverend Wright to «Yes We Can» to «Bomb Bomb Iran,» online video has almost certainly been more significant in shaping the race, at times even altering the fundamental direction of a campaign.

While a bomb goes off once, a chemical agent can remain in a person for a long time after exposure and keep creating new wounds (such as blisters) that require the person to stay hospitalized.