Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!
Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.
If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.
The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.
or simply:
