Sentences with phrase «like ticking time bombs»

Dr. John Gottman has been studying couples for the last four decades to understand why some relationships are like ticking time bombs that result in divorce or chronic unhappiness, while others work well, are satisfying, and remain stable over a lifetime.

In other words, zero tolerance policies did little to help schools, law enforcement, and mental health experts identify deeply troubled students who are out there, like ticking time bombs.

Debates continue about whether individual life spans and the problems associated with aging are programmed into our bodies, like ticking time bombs we carry from birth.

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

For most digital publishers, it's almost like a ticking time bomb every time a new reader hits their site.

Sam Poser, an analyst with Susquehanna Financial Group, raised concerns Tuesday about continued high levels of inventory, which he said in a report «appear out of control» and «looks like a ticking time bomb to us.»

We're in the home stretch at this point and I feel like a ticking time bomb ready to set off at any given time.

I know what it is like to experience a pregnancy which feels a little like a ticking time bomb with regards to when baby will be born and how things will be after the birth.

Asher felt more like a happy baby most of the time, and less like a ticking time bomb.

«It's like a ticking time bomb, and that is an extraordinary statement.»

Living with someone or being in close proximity with coworkers during cold and flu season can feel like a ticking time bomb wondering who is going to get sick next.

The Paleo / high fat & protien / low carb diet is now being proven unhealthy and dangerous like a ticking time bomb.

While the stem cells only comprise about 5 percent of a cancerous tumor, they act like a ticking time bomb.

But it totally feels like a ticking time bomb.

A Milne hold the baby Christopher Robin like a ticking time bomb, no idea how to actually parent.

It was like a ticking time bomb as Shiro and his mother got on too well before it exploded into usual shouting match about Shiro not being proud of his gayness.

If you shut down the noise, he will soon sit there silently like a ticking time bomb with no counter, or a smoke alarm with no batteries.

Your dog becomes like a ticking time bomb.

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But Wilshere does, and Flamini is a ticking time bomb, Ramsey is reliable in attack but he's not a DM, we need proven quality that will keep teams like Norwich and West Brom from overrunning our midfield

Sue if Sanchez he went to City then EPL would of been one horse race like in Germany and France so out of the two i rather he went to United because there is always a possibility Mourinho will throw a wobbly and mess with Sanchez's head or the whole team, IMO the man is a ticking time bomb

The case for HS2 has now descended into nothing but rhetoric with everything being chucked at the idea that it must be a good idea, because those three words «high speed rail» sound so much like they should be a good idea, or at least that's what Cameron thought when he picked up the time - bomb Lord Adonis left ticking in the Department for Transport.

As much as I love creamy pasta dishes like bechamel - rich lasagna, macaroni and cheese, and baked pastas, that combination of ultra-rich dairy and pasta is a ticking tummy time bomb, so I try to avoid it unless it's really, truly worth it.

Totally hear you on the injury thing — I feel like at ticking bomb most of the time.

At times it plays like a hybrid of the ticking - bomb thrills from [«24»] and the moral thorniness that undergirds HBO's excellent crime series The Wire.

Every moment feels like it's building towards a major confrontation, with Troy as the ticking time bomb in the middle of it all.

Each time the family gets together, it's like setting a ticking time bomb and waiting to watch it explode.

There was somebody I believe from a union this past week that said, «This is like putting a ticking time bomb on a school bus.»

@Charles my best guess to the answer of why some people never take care of their car is that they believe it is like their refrigerator (appliance), that they don't have to do anything because it will run all the time no matter what, and they don't realize that when they do that they are driving around a ticking time bomb waiting to go off, and when it does, they complain about how the car was built «cheaply» and thats why it broke, or that its the cars fault for breaking!

It all sounds like a rosy future for Amazon, but the company needs to proceed with caution and pay close attention to some ticking time bombs.

I knew that I would have to pay back my undergraduate and graduate loans, but like many people, I did not factor in the ticking time bomb of interest.

It basically appears like student loans are fast becoming the next «ticking time bomb», similar to the mortgage debt problem which eventually led to the collapse of many large lending institutions, and paved the path for what has come to be called the «great recession».

Real estate, which some viewed as a ticking time bomb in China, looks like it is getting closer to blow up.

Then, the ticking time bomb of massive methane release accelerates the ticking process, like a doomsday clock on the public square that spins ever faster as beads of sweat on the mayor's forehead belie his adamant denial of human - caused global warming.

Once viewed as a stable area of ice at least two miles thick in some places, recent research makes Antarctica seem more like a ticking sea - level - rise time bomb that is counting down more rapidly than ever before.

Things like global warming, and income inequality are not going to wait for us to get our shit together, they are ticking time bombs and will go off if we don't do something, and do something fast.

Battery replacement — Car batteries are like ticking time - bombs — you never know when they're going to run flat.

Inevitably, your spouse will one day explode like a ticking time - bomb when he or she has decided «enough is enough»!

«It's like a time bomb ticking.