It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat.
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But mostly, the dearth of candidates has more to do with the double-edged sword of consolidation.
Hamilton's second book, Sugar Hill, examines the double-edged sword of assimilation facing upwardly mobile Latinos.
"The sword of Damocles has been hanging for a little while now, " he told 5 Live.
In other words, a sword of Damocles is hanging over the head of Ms Dorries.
You can read the Sword of Fargoal 2 thank-you note and watch the thank-you video here.
"It keeps the sword of Damocles still above his head, " said Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College.
Earlier this afternoon I posted about the final hour and a half of the Sword of Fargoal 2 Kickstarter drive.
How heartwarming it is that the sword of truth and the defence of society are in the hands of the tabloid press.
Sword of Fargoal 2 is down to its last minutes on Kickstarter.
"Remember the sword of your great-grandfather Ali, " in reference to the man who is regarded by the Shiites as their historical religious authority.
But sometimes we hear stories that make us smile, and the eleventh hour success of Sword of Fargoal 2 is one of those stories.
The DOJ understood that a traditional indictment could destroy the company, and it dangled this Sword of Damocles in order to get what it wanted.
They're still somewhat unscathed by the double-edged sword of sudden fame.
"That's the double-edged sword of the government, and if you're building a business on reimbursement rates of Medicare and Medicaid, good luck with that, " she said.
We still remember Jonathan Aitken's promise to use the simple sword of truth and trusty shield of British fair play before he was jailed for perjury.
Shannara, a series that started in 1977 with The Sword of Shannara, is about a post-apocalyptic Earth where much of humanity has mutated into dwarves, gnomes, and trolls.
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"That's the double-edged sword of Anonymous, " said Anonymous 9000.
As we tax advisors have charged blindly into another fun-filled filing season, little did we know that all the while the Sword of Damocles has been hanging above our beloved Internal Revenue Code.
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And if that was not enough the region has an economic Sword of Damocles poised above it as Argentina's economy collapses, sending financial shock waves that are felt to varying degrees through the whole of South America.
Professional writers, for whom concentration is critical, are often derailed by the double-edged sword of the Internet: they use it to find material, but they often go off on search sidetracks that interrupt their creative process.
Most people who negotiate for a living like I do have been more or less obsessed with the debt ceiling spectacle since we first learned that our elected representatives were bargaining with the Sword of Damocles ( August 2) dangling overhead.
For thousands of years, the sword was one of the most important weapons in a warrior's arsenal.
But they had chosen the edge of the sword and flight and the fate of outcasts rather than break faith.
Which is a shame, because a finger-based interface is obviously well-suited to games involving pointing at things, and projects like the iPhone version of the classic Broken Sword have shown the possibilities of selling this type of game on mobile formats.
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Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who will be sworn in as interim president later Friday, laid a replica of the sword that South American hero Simon Bolivar used on top of Chavez's flag-draped casket.
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While he wears a scabbard at his side, it is bereft of sword and neglected in care.
Last year, Howell Raines, then editor of the New York Times, eventually fell on his sword in the wake of a similar scandal involving his own star reporter, Jayson Blair.
Lots of sword-fighting and daring-do.
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