The Greek government might be living on borrowed time, but European finance ministers have just borrowed a bit more.
You see, given the mess that is European sovereign finances, the European financial markets and thus the banks are on borrowed time.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bradshaw said that both the ferry and the helicopter which served the islands were "running on borrowed time" and might not be replaced commercially.
But the longer term trend has led some to believe the print industry is on borrowed time even if the famous brands and written journalism itself can adapt.
"An awful lot of companies have been living on borrowed time and only some have faced up to their debt position, " says Deepak Sabharwal, president-director of chemicals group ICI Indonesia.
So Hyundai Engineering and Construction seems to be living on borrowed time as well as borrowed money, with about a fifth of its 5.2 trillion won debt falling due at the end of the year.
Others will read the statistics and realize that while he looks like the picture of health and has been in remission for six years, people diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer are living on borrowed time.
It has been rumoured for some time that the chairman, Nicola Cortese, has been considering a change and there has been a sense for a while at St Mary's that Adkins has been living on borrowed time.
The Big 12 Conference has been on borrowed time in a while, not the least of reasons that it lost two teams to other conferences, including Nebraska to the Big Ten, which now has 12 teams, leaving the Big 12 with 10.
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While male presenters entering their 50s could look forward to two more decades in the business, she said, women of a similar age felt they were "on borrowed time and that is just not right - it is a combination of age and sex discrimination".
Or to put it another way, the dramatic inversion of the Eurepo curve over just the past few weeks says something disturbing: banks are again fearful of becoming too financially dependent on each other, because they can't be certain which are healthy and which are living on borrowed time.
Mr. BILL PROENZA (Director, National Hurricane Center): I was concerned that there was nothing on the books and nothing in the process of our budget process that showed that indeed NOAA was planning for what I would consider the next generation replacement for QuikSCAT, especially since it's in on borrowed time as we speak.
If Maduro somehow wins, and continues in the Chavez mold, then Pdvsa is not just on borrowed money, but borrowed time.
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Both Norrie and Space are hoping that fellow students and new grads will be eager trade their free time for a break on their borrowed bottom lines.
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At the same time, he was aggressively buying Chesapeake Energy shares on margin--using borrowed money for the purchases.
The image of a "fat cat" consultant spending more time on the golf course than on the wards is one that we're likely to see borrowed over the coming few days, as senior doctors reject a new contract.
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