They have created a toxic time bomb, a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every person in this valley ."
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The administration told us they would be using the threat of this list as a Sword of Damocles over Sinn Fein / IRA,
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Without a solution to the conflict on the island, a sword of Damocles hangs over Ankara's talks with the EU.
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"There now is a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of each one of these executives, " he said.
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In a society as privileged as ours, no one should have to live with a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over their heads.
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The threat of such a conference would be " a sword of Damocles hanging over the peace process, " one Israeli official said.
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The American president John F . Kennedy compared the omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation to a sword of Damocles hanging over the people of the world.
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The stock of Borland International jumped yesterday after a federal appeals court lifted a cloud that had hung over the struggling software company like a sword of Damocles.
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But until now, a sword of Damocles has hung over the many landlords who faced lump sum payouts on the huge mortgages they so blithely took a decade ago.
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"We all know the Iraqi conflict is holding a sword of Damocles over the world economic situation, " said Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser.
