In short it will take a miracle to send the stock back up the slippery slope it is sliding down.

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It will take only a miracle to save us from a recession next year.

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It may take a holiday miracle.

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He's coming from a startup, fully aware that it's going to take more than a miracle to redirect the things that he sees as misguided.

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It will take nothing short of a miracle in the second leg at Christie Park on Thursday for Morecambe to turn this tie around.

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These confusions would not be so worrying if investors did not have to take so much of the Softbank miracle on good faith.

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The demand has to come first, says Finch, and given the general non-existence of open source marketing, that's going to take something of a Kevin Costner-scale miracle.

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The new film unwinds in one take, lasting ninety minutes, and by some miracle we grow happily accustomed to its rhythm, like children held rapt by a bedtime story.

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The clueless Chancellor should take a cue from the now-forgotten Ludwig Erhard, architect of the post-WWII German economic miracle.

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For those late-night shoppers hoping these devices would be the miracle ride to lean and mean, Hirsh has this dose of reality: " If you take diet out of the picture, to lose one pound of fat, the average (160-pound person) would need one to nine months" (of working out regularly) on almost all of the devices they tested.

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