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Unfortunately, while Berlusconi's government is invariably long on speeches, legal provisions designed to stop the clock on his court cases are among the few laws that have passed in his two years of government.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.
But one website features a clock showing the debt growing at a rate of £5,170 per second.
The tax base grows by the second, too, but no clock shows that.
UNICEF is working around the clock to restore a sense of normalcy for Gaza’s youth – developing remedial worksheets to help children keep up with their studies; creating sports and recreation programs in schools; and working with communities to establish play areas where kids can be kids in safety.
The possibility of stopping the clock on the proceedings for a couple of weeks gives a company some time to negotiate remedies with the Commission, while preserving certainty in the timetable, which constitutes the main advantage of Europe's competition rules.
There used to be a national debt clock in the hearing room of the House Financial Services Committee, and Republicans would rant about government profligacy as it ticked upward.
When I was in that room recently, the clock was “under repair.”
Armstrong later wrote that “by the fourth cycle [of chemotherapy], I was in the fetal position, retching around the clock.”
No one recalls any expression of regret by him, which suggests that he persists in such folly – and would use conditionality to turn the clock back on decades of progress in development economics.
So, despite recent progress and commitments to move Brexit talks forward, nothing about the process is certain, except, perhaps, that it will become more, not less, chaotic as the two-year clock ticks down.
And yet another significant development is the emerging “Internet of Things,” which will continue to grow as more gadgets, home appliances, wearable devices, and publicly-sited sensors become connected and begin to broadcast messages around the clock.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to turn back the clock, by betting on the resuscitation of a dying – and deadly – fossil-fuel industry.
Animals, he maintained, are merely ingenious mechanisms, and we should not take their cries and struggles as a sign of pain, any more than we take the sound of an alarm clock as a sign that it has consciousness.
With the two-year election clock in the US about to be reset to 2016, there is probably enough time for one more major push for substantive nuclear talks with North Korea.
Some are sawn and polished to be made into clock faces, gewgaws, and souvenirs.
The clock is ticking on efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Today, the city’s poorest households receive drinkable piped water around the clock.
Although the constitution limits the president to 8 years in office, just when the clock started on Yeltsin is in question: did it begin when he was elected president of a Russia still part of the USSR, or did it only begin in July 1996, after he won the first presidential campaign conducted by the Russian Federation?
Back when the countries with the best sailing and navigation technologies ruled the world, the mechanical clock was a technology available only to the few.
With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing.
For the first time, a political clock is ticking for Hamas.
They helped block the project and establish the notoriously inefficient African club of heads of states, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), thus setting back the clock of African integration by decades.
But now it is simply too late to turn back the clock and start outing communists.
There some 1,500 Africans process American health-insurance claims - working around the clock, in three shifts.
The nuclear clock is ticking.
Yet bigots petitioned to reverse that decision, ultimately succeeding in turning back the clock for gay rights in India in 2013, when the Supreme Court overturned the High Court’s decision.
Turn the clock back six centuries, to the early 1400s.
Let’s turn back the clock a dozen years.
While failure to adjust interest rates is not prima facie evidence of dysfunction – after all, even a broken clock is right twice a day – frozen interest rates really do give the appearance of paralysis.
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