Sentences with phrase «house of cards tumbling»

Jolting narrative ellipses sometimes threatens to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.

Any number of shocks could send Canada's house of cards tumbling, the bank says, particularly higher borrowing costs that pinches households already carrying record high levels of debt.

Meanwhile, Plummer gives a brilliantly gruff yet warm performance of someone who is viewing a house of cards tumble down, yet whose loyalty to his friend surpasses his evident frustration.

Sounds awfully like the banks tricking people into signing ARM's, packing the bad loans into balls of other bad loans, selling them all over the place as investments, then blaming the mortgage holders when the whole house of cards tumbles down.

Remove or reduce the subsidies, and the houses of cards tumble.

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He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

My suspicion is that the government realized that CEFC was a house of cards, and the financial strains of the Rosneft acquisition would bring the house tumbling down.

The economy was based on a financial house of cards, which came tumbling down in 2007.

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

«The Synagogue,» «Jewish legalism,» and all those old slogans of our theological tradition came tumbling down like the house of cards they were.

«Like a house of cards, as you start pulling one here and there, the whole structure tumbles.

A tumbling house of cards that represents your whole childhood and everything you thought you knew and was before you in life can feel scary.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

It's great to see the Keith Raniere's house of cards come tumbling down.

To be fair, fiscal watchdogs have long decried the unsustainability of the pension system, saying it's built on a house of cards that could tumble at any moment.

Surely the whole house of cards was about to come tumbling down?

Socially awkward Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is nearly autistic but brilliant with numbers; angry - guy Mark Baum (Steve Carell) applies his Talmudic erudition to Wall Street and sees a house of cards waiting to tumble; Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) calmly lays plans to profit from the bubble once it bursts; and newbie investors Charlie Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) get onboard, essentially betting that the housing market would fail.

When the script (brilliantly balanced by frequent Danny Boyle collaborator, John Hodge) calls for Armstrong, high on his Ozymandian throne, both to himself and to the world, to explode, Foster does so with the careful and bombastic restraint of someone who has never once thought of his inevitable downfall — the cockiness of someone too impressed with the towering nature of their house of cards that the idea of it tumbling down if but a footnote.

If you lose your job, your entire financial house - of - cards comes tumbling down.

Until Dawn manages to secure a significant understanding of the concept, to the point where enough eyebrow - raising and nerve - racking occurrences present themselves early enough to keep players invested, but doesn't come tumbling down like a house of cards in the first hour or two.

Since the release of Star Wars: Battlefront II, EA have been overwhelmed by a deluge of negativity that has sent their stock prices tumbling like a house of cards, aliened countless hardcore gamers the world...

Since the release of Star Wars: Battlefront II, EA have been overwhelmed by a deluge of negativity that has sent their stock prices tumbling like a house of cards, aliened countless hardcore gamers the world over, and threatened to engulf the entire industry, undoubtedly changing the videogame landscape forever.

These compositions appear to focus on painter's spaces rather than architectural spaces, alternately resembling crowded rows of canvases, artist's loft storage with the room subtracted, or paintings falling like a tumbling house of cards.

Just goes to show you, the entire CAGW meme is a house of cards that will come tumbling down at some point.

Surface temperatures would stay elevated for at least a thousand years,...» Now there is an hypothesis that we will test in the coming decades, and if it proves false, the house of cards will tumble.

The third world is poor anyway and they can just build walls to keep the sea from rising like the did in the Neatherlands where as our economy is built on speculation and tax minisation schemes it's a finely balanced house of cards and the slightest call on GDP will bring the whole thing tumbling down.

Ergo, the entire AGW argument tumbles like a house of cards.