• There is now much discussion in Berlin of what the final reckoning could be if the bailouts fail in a catastrophic collapse.

    BBC: Constitutional issues could stop Merkel buckling

  • Third, like the ITV Digital palaver in the UK, Kirch's troubles represent the final reckoning for the economic exuberance of the 1990s.

    BBC: Q&A: Kirch's insolvency

  • Vladimir Weiss came on for the final seconds of regulation time and, after the match moved into extra-time, the winger played a big part in the final reckoning.

    BBC: Celtic 1-2 Rangers (aet)

  • "In the final reckoning, the responsibility lies with the prime minister and as long as I am prime minister, Iran will not have the atomic bomb, " he said.

    BBC: Israeli PM Netanyahu 'ready' to order strike on Iran

  • As much as it may have evolved, in the human animal, as a motivation system for mate-finding, it was rarely given great consideration in the final reckoning of conjugal choice.

    NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

  • The final reckoning could prove very painful indeed.

    ECONOMIST: More subprime damage is revealed

  • In any case, the time when whatever is on one side of the balance is weighed against whatever is on the other side -- whether it's your heart, your soul or your debts -- and the final reckoning is made.

    CNN: Our romance with debt -- we'll pay later

  • We have to hope that, in the final reckoning, the homes we own, and whose values we have seen artificially soar over the past 10 years or so, are like the cardinal's cameos and not a collection of perishable tulip bulbs.

    BBC: Of bulbs and bubbles

  • Property developers are forgetting that the central government can only delay--not avoid--a final reckoning in the property sector.

    FORBES

  • Despite the end of the Cold War, Castro continues to espouse a hard line, using apocalyptic rhetoric, proclaiming "socialism or death", ranting about a final reckoning with the United States, and punishing any Cuban who advocates genuine political or economic reform.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Congress of the United States

  • Time was running out for Carver, and he recognised that poetry not onlycould say everything that needed to be said in fewer words, but was able to capture the emotional peaks and troughs of his life, to provide the most powerful and efficient vehicle for that final reckoning of everything that he had ever been.

    ECONOMIST: New American verse

  • And as they seek to avoid a final reckoning, central planners are preventing the adjustments that everyone knows are necessary.

    FORBES: Goldman Dumps Stock of Chinese Bank

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