"This is a sword of Damocles that is going to hover over our heads for a long time, " she said in an interview with French daily Le Parisien published Thursday.
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But Jackson said the threat of a line-item veto hung over members of Congress like a sword of Damocles, making them subservient to the president before and after they voted on appropriations bills.
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The specter of Sept . 11 hangs over the economy like a sword of Damocles-both from fears of another terrorist attack and from the uncertainty of how deeply the tragedy has effected the economy.
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The languishing of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people is " a huge problem, " Bendukidze said . " These people were being used as a political tool, as a sword of Damocles.
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"I've decided that it's possible to live with a sword of Damocles hanging over you, " he said, when asked how long he might live ( he prefers not to know ).
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"It's a sword of Damocles that dangles above us by a thread and you're constantly imagining that the thread is going to break, it's going to slice you in two ."
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LEGAL experts warned yesterday that the Constitution's Article 219 could turn into a sword of Damocles since it threatened to bring to nought the government's efforts to issue the decrees and delay a timely response to the national crisis.
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He added in his 1992 book, " Grand Inquests, " that impeachment successfully used in this way would have turned the constitutional remedy into " a sword of Damocles, designed not to fall but to hang ."
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At that time more than 350, 000 tonnes were amassed in various locations across the USA and the decision by the US authorities to declare the bulk of the tonnage surplus to strategic requirements overhung the producing world like a sword of Damocles.
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Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa's Constitutional Court, who was the first chief prosecutor for the tribunals, said Friday that talking about a timetable in these terms was equivalent to holding a sword of Damocles over the heads of these judicial panels.
