• He grasped the social instabilities of the Middle East, and sensed that they would burst out in new ways once the cold war ended.

    ECONOMIST: Fred Halliday

  • In the Himalayas alone, some 44 glacier lakes are filling so rapidly that they could burst their debris retaining walls in the next four or five years, in what are known as 'glacial lake outburst floods' (GLOFs).

    UNESCO: 83e

  • Contagious ideas give consumers a reason to talk and they take off in a burst of reciprocal digital conversation.

    FORBES: Groupon, Jay-Z, Puma Know Well The Meaning of "Contagious"

  • In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.

    BBC: Ding dong merrily online

  • But in the beginning they burst into a market with very entrenched competitors by having a strong 10x.

    FORBES: Competing With Incumbents: Finding Your 10x

  • They burst their way into her home in Overtown, Wishaw, and went through rooms looking for Mr Coulter.

    BBC: Derek Clark admits attempting to murder Mary Coulter

  • The Internet burst in 2002, they proclaimed, two short years before Facebook.

    FORBES: 5 Myths On LED Lighting

  • As every schoolboy knows, if you bring a particle and an antiparticle together, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

    ECONOMIST: Particle physics

  • Since, as every schoolboy knows, when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy, the equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have annihilated each other long ago and the universe should now be filled with energy and little else, which is evidently not the case.

    ECONOMIST: Cosmology and particle physics

  • In a burst of triumphalism, they seem to be echoing former House Majority Leader Dick Armey's advice to Republicans in the past -- "bipartisanship is another name for date rape" -- despite the fact that it is exactly this hyper-partisan, play-to-the-base approach to politics that caused independent voters to abandon President Bush.

    CNN: Commentary: Obama losing independent voters

  • But changes in these areas, as needed as they may be, would still be overwhelmed by the burst in spending on Social Security and Medicare as the Baby Boom generation retires and lifespans increase.

    FORBES: Election Over, Liberals Call For Entitlement Cuts

  • Ever since the Japanese bubble burst in the early 1990s, they have looked inward and focused on rebuilding their domestic operations.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese banks

  • The truth is that they are just like everyone else: kids who don't understand what has happened to them and who act big and tough when in fact all they want is to burst into tears.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

  • When the man arrived, everyone in the room burst out laughing they had been laying bets on whether the detective would be wearing a trench coat (he wasn't).

    ECONOMIST: Private detectives

  • Even if Mr Abbas and Mr Fayyad manage to clean up Fatah this time, they may be bottling up radical Islamist anger that could burst out in the future.

    ECONOMIST: We query a plan to rehabilitate Fatah and isolate Hamas

  • But they were all the man took when he burst into the kiosk at night in the town of Novaya Lyala, in Sverdlovsk region.

    BBC: Armed robber seizes cigarette pack

  • And what's missing from, I think, almost all these movies is that wonderful moment in the movie musical where everything was heightened just before they burst into song.

    NPR: Do Movie Audiences Have a Tin Ear?

  • When they burst they caused fires, destroying, among other things, the Dreamland amusement park in Coney Island.

    ECONOMIST: Going out all over Europe, and beyond

  • In a statement Dwr Cymru Welsh Water said they were dealing with a burst on their wastewater network which has occurred close to Kinmel Bay Industrial Estate.

    BBC: Clwyd Estuary: Rhyl sewage spill warning

  • While the moment was romantic -- let's not forget the bubble she found herself in -- the story they tell these days is more about how that bubble was burst by a street vendor trying to sell them a rose.

    CNN: Proposal destinations: 10 best places to pop the question

  • The Netherlands had been disappointing up to that point but showed again how they do not have to play well to win games in the tournament with a two-goal burst in the space of three minutes that was enough to give them victory.

    BBC: Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands

  • Arsenal continued to press forward looking for a way back into the match, but once again they were caught on the break as this time Korean Ji-Sung Park burst through a huge gap in the home defence to slide home the decisive third goal early in the second half.

    CNN: Rooney landmark in Man United victory

  • Again, John Brennan and others visited with the Yemeni government to discuss our efforts in Yemen, to discuss our efforts in Somalia, to discuss our efforts throughout that region of the country, long before they burst out into the newspapers.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • When the bubble burst, their shares were quickly worth less (or, in some cases worthless), but they still owed the tax on gains they never realized.

    FORBES: Why Is Silicon Valley So Clueless About Stock Options?

  • Severn Trent said the problem affecting Ysgol Bro Ddyfi in Machnylleth was down to a burst pipe, and 45 people had phoned to complain that they had no water.

    BBC: Machynlleth water supply cut forces school to close

  • Consider also that tech buying cycles in the public and private sectors sometimes diverge, as they did dramatically after the dot-com bubble burst at the turn of the century.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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