Coalmine
in sentence
7 examples of Coalmine in a sentence
It's like the canary in the
coalmine.
And Spain may be the proverbial canary in a
coalmine.
In the past year, the Australian government has approved both the massive Carmichael
coalmine
and the Abbot Point terminal, located near the Reef, to facilitate the global export of output from the Carmichael mine.
And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signaling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalization, free trade, offshoring, labor migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.
Is Greece the “canary in the coalmine” – the warning that tells us that Europe’s monetary union is on the verge of dissolution, with the other three of the famous PIGS (Portugal, Italy, and Spain) lining up like dominoes to fall?George Soros fears this might be the case, and gives the eurozone only a 50% chance of survival in its present form.
Syria is the canary in the
coalmine.
Likewise, he considers Antarctica the canary in the coalmine, but again doesn’t tell the full story.
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