Sentences with phrase «fuse on a bomb»

The notion way back in the 20th century that population was a bomb — has that fizzled or is there just a slow fuse on the bomb?

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And Trump's policies to date — a combination of deep tax cuts and sharp spending increases — are shortening the fuse on that fiscal time bomb, by dramatically widening the already unsustainable gap between revenues and outlays.

Tell him that his people failed to organize a promised site tour and you will ignite a fuse attached to a bomb set to explode at the earliest opportunity on whoever dropped the ball.

Commercial building owners began pulling hundreds of billions out of their properties, lighting the fuse on a ticking time bomb.

Capitalizing on yesterday's South Carolina primary win, Newt Gingrich sent out an email last night lighting the fuse on a million - dollar «money bomb» (a concentrated online fundraising effort) to «knock out» those who stand between him and the presidency.

Our traditional associations are 19th century nihilists, bombs with smoking fuses on them, or hooded guys with bandanas round their mouths charging police lines at G8 summits.

FBI Director James Comey lit the fuse Monday on a political time bomb and no one — including him — knows how long it will take to burn or what kind of damage it may cause when it goes off.

All of these dozen problems are like time bombs with fuses just a few decades long, because world societies are already on a non-sustainable course, and our trajectories for each of these problems will run out in a few decades if we don't change our course.

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Because the fuse on this time bomb is long, politicians flinch from inflicting tax pain, given that problems will only become apparent long after these officials have departed.

The cases affect how the bombs go off and could ether explode on impact, a delayed fuse, tripwire or can even be stuck on a surface or enemy.

A bomb blows up based on its fuse type.

Casings determine how the bombs are thrown (some are tossed in an arch, while others are rolled or bounced on the ground), powders determine what happens when the bombs explode (one sends flames in both directions of Plague Knight, for example, while another works as a homing missile), and fuses determine how long it takes for a bomb to explode.

But the globe is cooling so the fuse on any purported «methane time bomb» is lengthening.

Keystone XL is a 1,700 - mile fuse to the largest Carbon bomb on the planet, the Alberta tar sands.

McKibben and his allies figure the $ 7 billion Keystone XL — which was barely on their environmental radar screen a year ago — could be a galvanizer because the 1,702 - mile underground pipeline would be a «fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.»

First, recent news has surfaced that the US State Department has a bias towards carbon polluting pipelines — namely, the Keystone XL, which is a 1,700 - mile fuse to the largest Carbon bomb on the planet, the Alberta tar sands.

So little data is available from the Arctic Ocean that no scientists dare say with certainty whether the world is watching the fuse being lit on a marine methane time bomb.

James Jones used his time on the podium to promote the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which another James — retired NASA climatologist James Hansen — once called a «fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.»

And we will continue to pressure President Obama to change course rather than allow his legacy on climate to be responsible for lighting the fuse on the carbon bomb that is the Canadian Tar Sands.»

Like the last such report, it found that approving a 800,000 barrel - a-day fuse to one of the planet's biggest carbon bombs was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the tar sands or the climate.

SolveClimate News: You have referred to Keystone XL as the «fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.»

Building a giant refinery that will light the fuse on a giant carbon bomb seems like an odd way to «compromise.»