Ticking

Ticking each day off, ticking each box and believing in the guy next to us, building through towards something that is bigger than us that’s coming up, which is the World Cup.

Albert Einstein was the first to suggest that time wasn’t something fixed like the ticking of a clock, but something more flexible like a rubber band.

And that probably speaks to velocity ticking down at times.

As a result, our Pac-12 survival odds have changed for the first time in months, ticking down to five points.

As he prepares his next move, FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows that his approval numbers are slowly ticking up from where they were last fall.

BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Eluned Morgan said: "We're still talking to the trade unions on this matter, we haven't averted strike action yet, but the clock is ticking.

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo is ticking all the right boxes of being the next Usain Bolt in terms of performances, but he has got a rival to watch out for in Erriyon Knighton.

But in the meantime, the clock is already ticking and you cannot afford to disappoint.

But that is not the managerial box-ticking of diversity casting.

Can we – before it is too late because the clock is already ticking loudly – find the vision and the actions that unite the independence forces and inspires our fellow citizens to embrace essential change?

Current models are ugly and overpriced, used ones are a ticking time bomb of maintenance issues.

Despite the clock ticking down, the Springboks attempted to win another scrum penalty when Willie le Roux called a mark (after a step) and then opted for a scrum.

Emissions and ecological damage are the potential ticking time bombs here.

England lost another man with the clock ticking down as Jack Willis was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle.

Fred is a ticking time bomb of emotions, blowing up at an ignorant waitress, and the vein in Suzanne Clément’s forehead looks ready to burst as she spits out anger.

He said he has spoken to consumer champion Martin Lewis, who on Tuesday said that a mortgage ticking time bomb is now “exploding” and that his previous warnings failed to be heeded.

He told the two officers that if the country had an IGP who could meet with the leader of the opposition party and get a promise that he would be retained when the NDC took power, the government was sitting on a ticking time bomb.

He was sharp in possession and kept Derby ticking along but was eventually replaced in the second half.

Hospital roofs admitting that “30 buildings at 20 different hospitals run by 18 individual NHS trusts” have at least one roof built with a type of cheap concrete that has been labelled “a ticking timebomb”.

How Will Butcher React to Knowing He's on a "Crazy Ticking Clock"?