• Paul Collingwood kept the scoreboard ticking by swiping Jacques Kallis for six over mid-wicket before Kieswetter, after thumping Duminy for six in similar fashion, fell to the same bowler when he holed out to Steyn, who took a well-judged catch fractionally inside the rope at long-on.

    BBC: England sink South Africa to close in on T20 semi-final

  • While murder and suicide both continued their long term declines, ticking down by 4.5% and 4% respectively, accidental alcohol poisonings actually increased by 7%.

    FORBES: Russian Demographics Update: Births And Deaths Both Increase In January 2013

  • In addition, new U.S. weekly unemployment claims surprised economists by ticking higher while another report showed soft manufacturing activity in the Midwest.

    WSJ: S&P Record Is a Show of Faith in Fed

  • Facebook, however, takes the view that the information customers necessarily divulge in the course of using Facebook becomes Facebook's property to use as Facebook sees fit -- unless of course the customer affirmatively opts out by ticking the correct boxes in Facebook's notoriously confusing and repeatedly changing privacy settings.

    CNN: Facebook needs to earn your trust

  • Yesterday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin dazzled those listening to his joint press conference with President Clinton by rapidly ticking off the array of topics addressed during their summit meeting.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Noxious Arms Control Treaty

  • Which means the issue once described by the foreign secretary as a ticking bomb is ticking rather louder.

    BBC: Lawson says the unsayable

  • In nine cases out of ten, the police complain, the result is that juvenile delinquents get released by the courts after a mere ticking-off.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • His government has had a very public ticking-off from Brussels with a recommendation by the European Commission that Germany should be given a warning about its budget deficit.

    BBC: Jobless put Schroeder on the line

  • Any deal needs to meet with approval in the Cypriot parliament as well as the EU, and the Monday deadline set by the ECB means the clock is ticking.

    BBC: Q&A: Cyprus bailout

  • The excessively low interest rates, unsustainable growth and massive leveraging over the last 30 years created a ticking time bomb that was set off in 2008 by the bundling and 30-1 leveraging of subprime mortgages.

    FORBES: What Europe And State Governments Should Learn From American Airlines

  • Eighty-seven percent of the original filling is re-used, said Smith, augmented by new filling and blown into new cotton ticking.

    FORBES: Northern California Hilton Aims To Be Sustainability Leader

  • Some senior commission officials fret about a ticking time-bomb of populism, waiting to be triggered by special-interest groups.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Luke Dorn was close to breaking the line, only to be downed by a cynical Tomkins tackle which earned a severe ticking off from referee Steve Ganson.

    BBC: Harlequins 12-36 Wigan

  • Driven crazy by the amount of form-filling and box-ticking required of them, commission officials have got used to cutting corners.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The bad news is that prices for many everyday items had already been ticking up, according to data from December 2004 and December 2007 collected by the U.S. Department of Labor.

    FORBES: Why Your Wallet Feels Thinner

  • That said, the pair kept the scoreboard ticking over at a healthy rate and, although Gambhir was dropped at backward point by Raqibul Hasan off Shahadat Hossain, they were rarely troubled.

    BBC: India too strong for Bangladesh

  • But this is not by much, and the fact is the deadline -- the clock is ticking and we need to take action.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Abraham Conneh, of Oxfam Liberia, warned the clock was ticking on an international pledge made in 2000 to give every child access to primary education by 2015.

    BBC: Scottish exams shake-up announced

  • Necid had a 10-yard shot blocked by some desperate defending as Scotland ensured the first half drew to a close without the scoreboard ticking over.

    BBC: Czech Republic 1-0 Scotland

  • This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.

    WSJ: Word Craft: Benjamin Percy, Author of Red Moon, on the Ticking Clock

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