Sentences with phrase «nightmare scenario of»

This is the nightmare scenario of this attack — a slow death to Bitcoin while a currency that looks like it to most, but is actually controlled by a handful of conspirators (or the Chinese government?..)

In the farthest reaches of Antarctica, a nightmare scenario of crumbling ice — and rapidly rising seas — could spell disaster for a warming planet.

The nightmare scenario of a shutdown in the meridional ocean current which drives the Gulf stream was dramatically portrayed in The Day After Tomorrow.

Difficulty determines the number of fights you have to get through, with Easy coming in at a very doable 10, while Extreme drops you into the nightmare scenario of having to get through 100 battles.

Sakurai had this nightmare scenario of pro wave - dashers griefing Smash newcomers, but none of those moves were even a quarter as advantageous to players as something like Brawl - era Meta - Knight was.

Tim Johnston's latest novel has an unusual take on the parent's - worst - nightmare scenario of child abduction.

Whenever we propose anything to change it, they put up a nightmare scenario of principals firing everyone for no reason and never proactively, constructively, suggest a fairer system which would decrease absences and improve teaching effort and quality.

The nightmare scenario of familial coziness also suggests something like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remade as an exceptionally refined Portuguese art film.

The 4 per cent swing to the Tories in the key seat of Nuneaton at about 2.30 am brought the nightmare scenario of the BBC exit poll a decisive step closer to reality.

And it left the party facing the nightmare scenario of a three - way leadership contest with the result announced on September 24.

That leaves the nightmare scenario of the nomination going to an older, less - known member of the House (Robin Hayes [ha!]

In another, it remains weak and pitiful, and the nightmare scenario of government regulation over the fourth estate comes one step closer.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is taking sides in a crowded California primary in the 48th District, backing businessman Harley Rouda, in an attempt to avoid a nightmare scenario of being shut out of the November ballot.

Instead the nightmare scenario of losing another cup final awaits all Gooners this morning as well as the nagging doubts over whether this team can actually cross the finish line to become winners.

If the government can put the nightmare scenarios of the next 48 hours behind it, its next task should be to re-examine the founding fears and myths of New Labour as part of the renewal in office debate.

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«I have a nightmare scenario that a hacker breaks into our system that controls satellites, UAVs, even the launch of missiles.

Hospitals and health insurers are gaining confidence that their nightmare scenario — millions of Americans instantly losing health insurance once President - elect Donald Trump delivers on a promise to «repeal and replace» Obamacare — is looking more like a bad dream than becoming reality.

Should Parkin's nightmare scenario pan out, the blame would lie not so much with Carney but with Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, who is bent on using the full force of monetary policy to boost the U.S. economy, consequences be damned.

A: Negative social media reviews, especially those that are potentially malicious, are near the top of the list of nightmare scenarios for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

And that is a nightmare scenario because the primary corporate objective of the typical Vancouver promoter lies not in the realm of a new gold discovery or near - term cash flow or added reserves, but rather in the novel concept of «distribution» and by that I don't refer to the «distribution» of profits to shareholders by way of dividends but rather the distribution of the one - cent paper they manufactured when they put the shell together.

At first glance it seems to be a Romney nightmare scenario: Which leads to Romney's nightmare scenario: If things don't turn around for Romney soon, those super PACs may give up on the task of electing Romney as president and turn to the task of encircling Obama's second term with a....

The religious right experienced what CNN called a «nightmare scenario:» in three states voters approved same - sex marriage; anti-abortion candidates were defeated in red states; and Obama, whose opponent had the support of Billy Graham, won a second term.

«A nightmare scenario»... a scenario which shows what is the true primary belief and way of life of «christians»..., the desire for and belief in equality freedom of self rights, self - interest.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court found the Syrian refugee ban by Indiana governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was based on a «nightmare scenario» of Syrian terrorists posing as refugees to gain US entry.

In terms of nightmare scenarios..

I'd hate to end up in a nightmare scenario where we end up in 6th or 5th place and Sanchez leaves of a free.

Nightmare scenario No Sanchez deal... Lose him for free No Ozil deal... Lose him for free No worthy replacements... Wenger extends contract another 2 years Most of us are laughing at Evans2Arsenal but our current back 4 aren't better than he is... Bottomline is: Even if Messi and Ronaldo joined the team... With Wenger at the helm we're going Nowhere

Conley's injury (he's out 6 - 8 weeks with a transverse process fracture in his vertebrae) is the nightmare scenario for a franchise that spent huge amounts of money to continue riding out an aging core with a history of injury problems.

For many, like myself, it was the only reason I felt it best to cut and run prior to the close of the window, in the hopes of avoiding another nightmare scenario if things continue to go horribly wrong and the focus shifts squarely on his mismanaged contractual situation.

While we were almost spared this nightmare scenario when Gervinho was seemingly headed to Al - Jazira, it now seems as though one of Adem Ljajic or Juan Iturbe, who has been linked to Genoa and Fiorentina recently, are being sacrificed to Garcia's insatiable desire for pacey wingers.

To me it seems like a nightmare scenario where the adoptee can't be honest with either set of parents.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

If mayoral control is not renewed before it sunsets next month, the system will return to the former system of local control, a scenario Fariña described Thursday as a «nightmare.»

The Electoral College once ended in a tie, and in this unlikely but still - possible nightmare scenario, the House of Representatives — just 435 people who were elected for various unrelated reasons — selects the next president.

In theory, by helping winnow the field a party endorsement could help prevent what Politico called the «nightmare scenario» of so many Democratic candidates splitting up the vote that two Republicans finish first and second, shutting Democrats out of the general election.

As Jimmy notes, Skelos is very interested is avoiding the so - called 31 - 31 scenario — a nightmare situation we all lived through in the summer of 2009, thanks to former Sens. Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr., and would really rather not repeat, thank you very much.

«The majority of British people recognise that a fourth term of a Labour administration, a weaker one, potentially shored up by perhaps a Simon Hughes - led group of Lib Dems is the nightmare scenario,» he said.

Gordon Brown will be hoping to win a few seats back - particularly from the anti-war Liberal Democrats who rode high then - but Labour's opinion poll rating is now below that of 2004 so the Labour leader might lose a few seats in his nightmare scenario.

The public sector can never pay for better wages out of productivity so their wages will always lag behind the private sector, in a time of rising prices and inflation this becomes a nightmare scenario for any government.

And, of course, there is the nightmare scenario for the Liberal Democrats that the Coalition's spending cuts end up aborting the recovery.

The triumph of «direct» democracy over representative democracy has brought about a nightmare scenario for the left

A nightmare scenario would be for the Tories, out of the blue, so to speak, to offer additional funding by an increase in National Insurance contributions.

It's time to flip the nightmare scenario and send a killer after the killer bacteria, say a handful of scientists with a new approach for fighting infection.

«We sort of had a nightmare scenario and an intentionally high concentration in order to better understand how the bacterial population would respond,» Smith says.

If you increase the size of a Sudoku grid to nine by nine, you suddenly have 6.7 sextillion possible scenarios... and you get an idea of the nightmare molecular biologists faced when they tried to code even a slightly complex biological system.

As the Large Hadron Collider's first sign of a superparticle melts away, physicists must contemplate their nightmare scenario, says Gavin Hesketh

That nightmare scenario came true for Brooks and a host of other researchers last spring when a popular DNA microarray design proved to be faulty.

The real nightmare scenario for CERN — one which Llewellyn - Smith declines to discuss — is that the LHC could run into a quagmire of delays which would be fatal.

Before long, we're trapped on Earth in the nightmare scenario: space is a no - go zone, made too dangerous to use for generations by countless chunks of junk.

So, the nightmare scenario would be that, if Cassini was just left to run out of fuel and careen uncontrollably around the Saturn system, there would be a small chance that it could crash into Enceladus in the future and any hitchhiking microbes on board might set up home in this ocean that lies beneath the thin crust.