Without a computer, the most powerful mind would sink under the load of information.
Relegation from the football league would sink the club into the depths of despair.
Torpedoing the settlement at this stage, however, would sink the housing market still further.
That would sink the paper's hopes of buying a stake in Polsat, a private television station.
Perhaps, more pragmatically, he calculated that Wahhabism and the Saud family would sink or swim together.
The heavier sand would sink and the lighter wheat grains were left floating.
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In March the talking heads on TV were sure the Dow would sink forever to a new low of 5, 000 or worse.
At midnight, only a handful of people on the ship knew that it would sink, but that did not mean that the ship was not sinking.
Recently a senior European figure warned the British that unless they became more deeply involved in the EU, Britain would sink to the level of significance of Norway or Switzerland.
It would sink some of those 1, 500 agriculture-heavy lenders.
He estimated about 70 percent of the oil would stay on the water's surface, but the rest would sink to the seabed, where he said it would contaminate the sea and marine life.
Nor can he prove his mettle as the opposition's best hope until early next year, in Lower Saxony's next state elections, when anything less than holding his own as premier would sink him nationally.
If that were to happen, demand for dollars would sink, and because there is no other currency to take its place in terms of trade, global inflation would rise as important commodities like agricultural goods, oil and precious metals metals would rise substantially to compensate.
But the French can't sell much, you say, they signed the Washington Accord, that smart little stitch-up late last year when the World Gold Council persuaded the US Administration that American gold miners would sink if the European central banks flogged off gold left right and centre.
And its liberalisation initiatives ran into a revolt by senators from Mr Berlusconi's party: lawyers and notaries who threatened that, if the clause abolishing their ordini was not withdrawn, they would sink the government's plan and tip Italy, the euro, Europe and perhaps the world economy into crisis.
Even the most potentially disturbing suggestion, which involves fertilising the oceans with iron in order to promote the growth of planktonic algae (in the hope that they would sink to the seabed, taking their carbon with them), can be covered by the London Convention on marine pollution, which regulates dumping at sea, and has already addressed itself to research in the area.
Yet a proportionally sized deal for a mid-market company would likely sink it.
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If the rates were allowed to float up to market levels, Irish households, banks, and the government itself, would all sink.
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The economy would be hit so hard that it would likely sink into recession in the first half of 2013, economists say.
Such a massive hike would quickly sink the economy into recession.
Crossing the great Atrato swamp, where the track became a causeway over slimy logs and then a mat of floating grass, the bike would sometimes sink into nothingness.
Liberal Democrats would never sink that low.
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He also worked on the unmanned flights that preceded them, which confirmed a prediction that he had made from his study of lunar craters: contrary to popular belief, an astronaut landing on the moon would not sink into the dust.
Ms. KING: But to those that do understand that it is a problem, I would say this bill would preserve a large carbon sink, a place that would protect and sequester carbon which, by the way, turns into money for the taxpayers because we can sell that - those points, I think, if we need to.
But joining the two big parties together would not necessarily sink their differences.
Most of the 105 economists polled said they thought the output of the U.S. would continue to sink -- from already historic lows -- this year.
But as I repeatedly, clearly, in great detail explain with breakdowns of finances involved, the slopping of one or two of the three solo films combined with the third film doing only modest business would STILL not sink a JL film at all, unless Batman and Superman ALSO flopped.
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From Peppa Pig rides to giant claws to one-armed bandits, every penny of turnover would be liable under the new duty, which, since it comes off turnover rather than profit, would be enough to sink many arcades.
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