| 单词 | house of cards |
| 例句 | It was like he had just finished building a house of cards. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I grin at the house of cards idea, getting the irony that they don’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z With the shiny metallic parts in hand, they began to build the model, adding part to part, as if building a house of cards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Within a few months after the match ended, Vasiljevic’s financial house of cards began to collapse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Who knew better than I on what a precarious, tottering house of cards my whole life rested?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t we use the game to build a house of cards?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Buildings fell like wounded dinosaurs; others collapsed like a house of cards. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Below was thirty-seven hundred feet of air, and I was balanced on a house of cards. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene changed as suddenly as a house of cards falling down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On one of the desks, someone has stacked brochures for subdivisions into a singlestory house of cards. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Their “meta” value goes up, while their documentary value may seem to collapse like a house of cards. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z That the creamery was, in fact, a house of cards ready to collapse. A Pennsylvania dairy was built on Mennonites’ trust and money. Now they’re left holding the bag. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z A few realize they’ve built a house of cards, and in their panic they lash out. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Walter McMillian's chances of becoming free were weaker than a house of cards next to an open window on a windy day. "Just Mercy": Freeing an innocent man shouldn't be this hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But appearances are deceptive and once the revelations start coming, it's like watching a house of cards collapse as their relationships, motivations and double dealings are revealed in sordid detail. This week's new theatre 2013-01-26T06:00:15Z The Coens find the unanswered questions, the points of self-contradiction, and unstable logic that can bring the entire narrative house of cards down. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Wes Anderson built a towering and beautifully balanced house of cards in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" that was as remarkable for its amusing imagery as its interlocking story. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z But he insists that the political system in Washington is really a “house of cards”. Change of heart 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z A house of cards is no fun if all the pieces are superglued together. Let's make House of Cards great again 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Placed together they show the morally upright New Republic to be a profoundly flawed house of cards that believes itself to be a shining fortress on a hill. "The Mandalorian" shows how a naive reliance on the goodness of democracy can lead the dark side 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The courtroom as a house of cards enchants. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z What at first seemed like isolated outbreaks of mortgage fraud in 2007 were, The Con argues, an epidemic of morally bankrupt, highly lucrative financial practices underlying a flashy house of cards. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z He's been regularly getting in his digs at his former rival since the whole house of cards started tumbling, but last night, his biliousness seemed to reach its apex. 2010-01-20T12:21:00Z He builds it all with the delicacy of adding another story to a house of cards. In Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project program, the name to remember is Noé Soulier 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Now, in a 69-page written “refutation,” six historians and academics describe the cold case team’s findings as “a shaky house of cards.” Dutch publisher pulls Anne Frank betrayal book amid critique 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “That was going to be an emotional house of cards for me,” she said. ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Celebrates a Life With Tears and Jokes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The resulting narrative is an intricate house of cards involving oscillating time frames and perspectives, and requiring some suspension of disbelief. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “This house of cards it had to fall,” she sings. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z Do you ever feel like you're "a plastic bag," "a house of cards" or "buried deep"? Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z The cover art depicts a house of cards. Books Of the Times: No Vaccine for Agony From Viral E-Mail 2011-07-24T22:22:40Z Everyone wears wear full hazard protection gear as they navigate a “giant house of cards.” New this week: ‘Saved by the Bell,’ Miley Cyrus & McCarthy 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z We’d spend billions of dollars in South Vietnam, devoted 58,000 lives, to saving this country from Communism, and then in an instant it collapses like a house of cards. “Star Wars” got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history works” 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Religion is like a house of cards — protected by a massively strong fortress. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z "Remove Bowie and pop's whole house of cards as built up over the last 40 years or so collapses." Can Bowie turn acclaim and hype into record sales? 2013-03-08T17:07:36Z Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z "His was a reputation built like a house of cards, and it collapsed," said Howard Bragman, a veteran Hollywood publicist and crisis manager. Bill Cosby is in role of outcast after sexual assault allegations 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy,” said the statement, which was published on the web. Theater Artists Decry Racism in Their Industry 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Now the house of cards is falling down. Our campaign to save Darlington arts centre 2011-01-28T12:30:41Z Rather, Jasmine is a cautionary tale of what happens when a woman builds her life around a wealthy husband, unaware of the house of cards in which she lives. Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine:' portrait of a lady who loses it all 2013-07-26T01:31:45Z It's a complete house of cards, for God's sake. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z The film is a cautionary tale of what happens when a woman builds her life around a wealthy husband, unaware of the house of cards in which she lives. Cate Blanchett wins best actress Oscar for 'Blue Jasmine' 2014-03-03T05:09:06Z But it was like trying to move a house of cards a hundred yards in a windstorm. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z But I’m not sure I ever quite shook the sense that the whole thing might be a house of cards. ‘The Far Side’ Is Back. Sort Of. Gary Larson Will Explain. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z They sound like they’re building a house of cards in the void. Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson’s jazz? It sounds like Stravinsky and the blues 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z I just wonder how long it will do him any good because the deck in this house of cards seems so stacked against him. House of Cards Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: When Men Were Men 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards,” which is an amazing quote, and I think right on. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z They’ll build a whole house of cards on needing to be right. How a Review Changed Both Sarah Silverman and Our Critic 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z “But now it’s not his birthday. It’s another day of wondering when the house of cards between him and his staff, or me, will fall.” A time of unprecedented fear for parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z What might happen to that house of cards by the time Ms. Schulman’s story of a calamitous prep-school sex scandal is over? Books Of the Times: No Vaccine for Agony From Viral E-Mail 2011-07-24T22:22:40Z “You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy,” it read. Idris Elba, Viola Davis and over 300 stars call on Hollywood to divest from police 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z One by one, the walls collapse like a house of cards. Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Just because a musical style reaches widespread popularity doesn’t mean it isn’t built upon a house of cards. Juice WRLD and the Tragic End of the SoundCloud Rap Era 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Now we’re being told that we need them, lest the infrastructure of filmmaking collapse like some cruddily built house of cards. We don't need a prestige Joker movie, but "The Dark Knight" made one inevitable. 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Finding a way to render this emotional house of cards made the adaptation process more complicated than “Normal People.” In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Some late family drama creeps in from the sidelines, but it feels like an unnecessary distraction, an attempt to add yet more stories to an already precarious house of cards. Review: Bedroom and boardroom intrigue abounds in Netflix’s wickedly entertaining ‘Fair Play’ 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z If the unprofitable generic market structure is a house of cards, then the Intas manufacturing problems were a destabilizing breeze—and by no means the last. Why There’s a Serious Cancer Drug Shortage, and How to Fix It 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “We remain very concerned about the shifting and peeling things back only to see that things start toppling like a house of cards. Manson does not want to assume that liability.” Workers hurt in Pier 58 collapse sue Seattle, say city job was unsafe 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z “Climate is one of those environmental variables that, like a house of cards, a lot of other things are built upon.” Millions of California trees are dying; Joshua trees are just the latest victims 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Forcing employees to relocate can severely destabilize team morale, similar to a gust of wind sweeping through a delicately constructed house of cards. Why Amazon's RTO strategy could backfire | Op-Ed 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z When the wind hits the mobile homes, “it’s like a house of cards. They just crumble,” Baggett said. Homes that become deadly: Tornadoes kill disproportionately more in mobile homes, AP analysis finds 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Giuliani's latest admission is another sign this house of cards is coming down. "These people are admitting they lied to you": New documents undermine Trump's January 6 defense 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The reparations owed by Germany were the means by which Britain and France planned to deal with their own debt, but they also created an economic house of cards that could easily tumble down. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z “The signature verification process in Maricopa County is a house of cards,” Lake said in a statement. Arizona court declines most of Lake’s appeal over gov’s race 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a financial house of cards,’’ said Bryan Martin, 49, of Westfield, New York, who works at a sewage treatment plant. Americans’ faith in banks low after failures: AP-NORC poll 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Reagan said she worries that the current caregiving plans for her parents could collapse “like a house of cards,” and, even as a social worker, she finds it difficult to know what services to arrange. The sandwich generation is changing. The stress remains. 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Giuliani's latest admission is another sign this house of cards is coming down. "These people are admitting they lied to you": New documents undermine Trump's January 6 defense 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z It might not have been a house of cards. Who could replace Gavin Lux? Four ways the Dodgers can fill the hole in their lineup 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But Mr Murdaugh rejected assertions by Mr Waters that he was concerned about his "financial house of cards" collapsing. US ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh admits lying but denies killing family 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Is working from home turning this marriage into a house of cards? Advice | Carolyn Hax: How to stop ‘loving’ grandson from belittling his sister? 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Before its extraordinary implosion, FTX strung together a red carpet’s worth of celebrity sponsors, lending glitz and glamour to the ill-fated house of cards. Have celebs learned their lesson from the FTX debacle? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z He suddenly realizes,” Mr. Ebert said, that “his entire life has been a house of cards.” Mobster hit: Omar tweet compares McCarthy to Pesci being killed in ‘Goodfellas’ 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z He has been accused by the US of building "a house of cards on a foundation of deception, while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto". US regulators warn banks over cryptocurrency risks 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z “The company’s failed solution? Hire more. ... We aren’t undermanned. … Even with the correct number of pilots on any given day, the house of cards fails, and fail it does with ever-increasing frequency and severity.” Far from a shock, Southwest meltdown was 'perfect storm' of well-known vulnerabilities 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The Securities and Exchange Commission said the man who was formerly nicknamed the "King Of Crypto" had built a "house of cards on a foundation of deception". FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried agrees to be extradited 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The regulator, which called the exchange “a house of cards,” alleged Bankman-Fried concealed that FTX diverted customer funds to Alameda in order to make undisclosed venture investments, luxury real estate purchases, and political donations. Exclusive-How secret software change allowed FTX to use client money 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” Mr. Gensler said. Lawmakers to Push for Answers Despite Bankman-Fried’s Arrest 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z But the company hasn’t had anything close to a significant moment of public reckoning, let alone been revealed as some scam or house of cards. People Love to Hate-Watch Tech Villains. That Won’t Hurt Spotify. 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “You could really imagine that if this were to falter within the United States, then the house of cards would start falling,” she said. European allies worry U.S. could dial back support for Ukraine 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z In his own remarks, Mr. Durham sought to broaden the case, telling jurors that “the whole house of cards of the dossier crumbles” under the weight of the evidence. Jury Begins Deliberating in Trial of Analyst Who Gathered Steele Dossier Claims 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The defensive house of cards collapses on 24. The plot thickens — and sickens — in Niemann chess cheating controversy 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent Egypt’s financial house of cards tottering. A New Capital Worthy of the Pharaohs Rises in Egypt, but at What Price? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The rest went to propping up a fiscal house of cards that relied on inflated revenue and phony profits to make Towers look like a major health care financing firm. Steven Hoffenberg, Debt Baron Who Ran a Vast Fraud, Dies at 77 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z When the real estate market stalled after reaching a peak in 2007, the house of cards built by the country’s largest financial institutions came tumbling down. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “It’s kind of a house of cards,” he said. A Town’s Housing Crisis Exposes a ‘House of Cards’ 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z But “Blade” too often feels like, well, a house of cards, more interested in driving a metaphor home than verisimilitude. Review | ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ fails to cut through French baloney 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But the house of cards came tumbling down after a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that Theranos’s technology was not working as well as the company boasted. Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani convicted on 12 fraud counts 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “This house of cards that they have built that this man somehow got peritonitis and sepsis and died does not stand the test of scrutiny, and it makes no sense,” McKenna told jurors. An O.C. lawyer won a personal-injury case. Then came the celebration video, and an apology 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z More to the point, Kennedy’s phrase about the swift collapse of the international house of cards should send a shudder through us all as we contemplate what the Ukraine war might eventually lead to. Review | How the naval battles of World War II reshaped the global order 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “They tried to make this company look solid — like the metals they sold — but in fact it was a house of cards,” Assistant U.S. FBI searching for Auburn couple, convicted in $30 million fraud scheme, who skipped court date 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “Protecting Indiana consumers from this house of cards is critical,” said Mr. Rokita in a Thursday statement. Indiana AG sues Black Lives Matter over donations, transparency 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “The house of cards could only be sustained if that cycle of deceptive trading, lies and buying power continued uninterrupted,” Grewal said in a statement. Archegos owner Bill Hwang, former CFO charged with securities fraud 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "Over the course of less than a week in late March 2021, the house of cards collapsed," the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a complaint against Hwang. The rise and fall of Bill Hwang's 'house of cards' 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “The house of cards would have fallen down.” Ex-Goldman Sachs banker convicted in plot to loot 1MDB fund 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z It quickly became clear that the right was not as clever as they thought with their assumption that democracy is a house of cards. Putin's war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z I filed a lawsuit against the Black Lives Matter organization to protect Hoosiers from this house of cards. Indiana AG sues Black Lives Matter over donations, transparency 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “There’s a perception of abundance, but when you begin to remove large numbers of a species, their numbers are going to collapse like a house of cards at some point,” Mr. Villa said. Demand for This Toad’s Psychedelic Venom Is Booming. Some Warn That’s Bad for the Toad. 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Here, the suppositions are piling up to form a house of cards. No, you can't really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Soon afterward, oil prices cratered, collapsing Venezuela’s economic house of cards. A network of young scientists and doctors aims to rebuild Venezuela’s devastated public health system 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Did she really think she’d be able to one day deliver the revolution she kept selling, or did she always know she was merely building a house of cards? Review | Two new shows chronicle the fall of Theranos and rise of Uber — and tally the human cost of tech greed 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “If we told any bank the truth, it wouldn’t work. … The house of cards would have fallen down,” he said. Ex-Goldman banker testifies 1MDB scheme a ‘house of cards’ 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The promise is that Anna’s house of cards will collapse and whoever is truly behind those oversize designer glasses will be revealed. 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “It is a totally a house of cards sometimes,” Demong said. Olympic ski jumpers fearlessly fly with mental fortitude 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The prosecution argued that Ms Holmes lied when her "house of cards" faced financial failure. Theranos trial of Elizabeth Holmes hears closing arguments 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z If you don't have promoters and venues working the whole thing is a house of cards - that's the big takeaway from Covid generally. Music venues warn of closures without financial help 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z "The entire prosecution’s case, including the foundation of the case, is built like a house of cards," Uche said. Jussie Smollett’s fate rests in hands of jury as one week trial draws to a close 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “The minute one thing goes wrong or a mistake is made, it could crumble the whole house of cards a lot of us have spent many years building,” she said. Psychedelic retreats are becoming more popular — even with extraordinary cause for concern 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z “It’s almost like once it was so obvious it was sort of a house of cards, then it becomes a one-off,” he said. Theranos failed, but other blood-tech companies are still trying to make testing faster and easier 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z A house of cards falling before our eyes. I’m not the only mom unable to return to work because of child care 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z It was a house of cards that needed to come down, Brad said. Gay people who come out later in life face unique obstacles 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Most of that information, including casualty data and unit strengths, was "all you needed to know to determine whether the Afghan security forces were a real fighting force or a house of cards," he said. State Dept, Pentagon are concealing Afghanistan data, says U.S. watchdog 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z When the fragile house of cards collapsed Monday, all pretense of power-sharing was put to rest. Sudan’s revolutionaries vow to resist military’s power grab 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z As a result, he said "half truths", inaccuracies and "cheap shots" were reported in the media and that Ozy was not a "house of cards". Scandal-hit Ozy Media says it has re-launched 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This house of cards would have come tumbling down. John Carreyrou’s final chapter on Theranos 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “It could end up being China’s proverbial house of cards ... with cross-sector headwinds already felt in materials/commodities.” Futures bounce 1% from Evergrande-led selloff 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In fact, subprime was part of a massive house of cards built on bundling mortgages and reselling them as complex derivatives on Wall Street. Twenty years after 9/11, Seattle and America transformed 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In fact, without the United States, his was a house of cards. For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Related Inside Faraday Future's financial house of cards So in late 2017, Faraday Future was running ragged. Faraday Future just became a publicly traded company 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Kuhn also said that the government’s case against Madera-Rodriguez was like “a house of cards” based on a flawed application of the law. Lawyer: Marine played minor role in soldier’s hazing death 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z When that financial house of cards collapsed in 2019, the economy imploded, hammering the banking system. Lebanon's banks stuck in reverse: jobs go, lending dives 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But a goofy strain of humble humanism manages to keep the self-consciously mannered house of cards from collapsing from its own pretensions. Review | Michelle Pfeiffer reigns over flawed ‘French Exit’ with mesmerizing hauteur 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The more I ponder quantum mechanics, the more physics resembles a house of cards. I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z "It was all a big house of cards," he said. Did CDC delays in up-to-date masking advice cost health workers’ lives? 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z “It was all a big house of cards,” he said. CDC’s ‘Huge Mistake’: Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up COVID Death Toll for Health Workers? 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z So when you shut down the grid, you shut down gas production, and it becomes a house of cards. Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation’s Power Grids 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “Dubai‘s economy is a house of cards,” said Matthew Page, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dubai, party haven amid pandemic, faces its biggest surge 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “Dubai’s economy is a house of cards,” said Matthew Page, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Coronavirus live news: China builds quarantine centre for 4,000 people; California passes 3m cases 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But after all the unexpected challenges, miracle comebacks and fortunate twists of fate, that house of cards somehow held. USC has one more obstacle to duck against Oregon in Pac-12 title game 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “I don’t look at one or two results and fall like a house of cards,” Solskjaer said. ‘The tree is growing’: Solskjaer calls for patience at Man U 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z "I don't look at one or two results and fall like a house of cards." 'I don't fall like a house of cards' 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z In a scant few pages, Banville literally upends his beautifully constructed house of cards with a violence and savagery that feels wholly earned. Review: A murder most fortunate: John Banville kills off his own pen name for the better 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Under Modi, the “world’s largest democracy” has become an eastern house of cards, dominated by Hindu nationalist knaves and jokers. Amnesty specialises in hard truths. No wonder Modi froze it out of India 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Late last year, Lebanon’s economic house of cards collapsed into its worst financial crisis in decades. France tries forcing change on Lebanon’s politicians 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z For Anna Hamilton and her husband, juggling two careers while raising two children was always a bit of house of cards. Child care crisis pushes US mothers out of the labor force 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z “We call it a house of cards, because there’s no Plan B.” For families across Washington, school online means tough choices in the coronavirus-battered economy 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Banville flicks away his house of cards not simply for the fun of watching it scatter, but in order to reveal what lies beneath. Review: A murder most fortunate: John Banville kills off his own pen name for the better 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z “Denying, distracting, and demeaning works great if you’re trying to entertain and inflame. But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.” For Bill Clinton, a Chance to Address a Party That Has Left Him Behind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “Denying, distracting and demeaning works great if you’re trying to entertain or inflame. But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.” Analysis | 3 takeaways from the second night of the Democratic National Convention 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “Denying distracting, demeaning works great if you’re trying to entertain or inflame. But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards. Covid just doesn’t respond to any of that.” Joe Biden officially becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee on convention’s second night 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “Denying, distracting, and demeaning works great if you are trying to entertain and inflame, but in a real crisis it collapses like a house of cards.” Bill Clinton zings Trump in DNC speech 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Thomas Sowell said on Tuesday that much of the left's ideology "falls apart like a house of cards" under scrutiny. Thomas Sowell tells Mark Levin left-wing ideology 'falls apart like a house of cards' when you demand facts 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a bit of a house of cards,” he says. Cells’ ‘lava lamp’ effect could make drugs more powerful 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “You can see how very quickly that would be a house of cards.” ‘Adapt or die’ — Restaurants find ways to evolve amid virus 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “You can see how very quickly that would be a house of cards.” ‘Adapt or die’ — Restaurants find ways to evolve amid virus 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z "The Supreme Court's approach to qualified immunity is a house of cards of judge made law dating back to the Warren Court," she told Fox News. Thomas says he 'doubts' qualified immunity precedent that protects police from lawsuits 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy,” it reads. 'This ends today': over 300 stage figures call out 'anti-blackness' of US theatre 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “As a college teacher,” I said when someone answered the door, “I believe that higher education is a house of cards because Americans won’t tax ourselves to support it.” Opinion | The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z “If you were to find one dishonest thing in her credentials, the entire house of cards falls.” Biden accuser’s credentials, expert testimony under scrutiny 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “If the US government moves on you I will bring down the entire house of cards,” Mr. Stone wrote in a private Twitter message to Mr. Assange. Roger Stone Was in Contact With Julian Assange in 2017, Documents Show 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z If the insurance mandate is unconstitutional, their argument goes, then the rest of the law must collapse like a house of cards. In a time of COVID-19, ‘Obamacare’ still part of the action 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z “If the US government moves on you I will bring down the entire house of cards,” Stone wrote, according to a transcript of the message cited in the search warrant affidavit. FBI documents reveal communication between Stone, Assange 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “It’s like our economy is this house of cards for women and it is just toppling down,” says Cecile Richards, a founder of SuperMajority, a new political organization aimed at energizing female voters. When Mom’s Zoom Meeting Is the One That Has to Wait 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a house of cards in that everything is interconnected,” said George Triantis, a professor at Stanford Law School. Wildfire Victims Push to Reopen $13.5 Billion Deal With PG&E 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive. The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus | Palli Thordarson 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z ‘Here they are in the ruins of what once looked like a bold and adventurous dream. One stroke and, crash, the whole house of cards collapses. No wonder they’re frightened.” Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z At moments such as this, we vaguely realize that the entire construct of organized pro sports is artificial, almost a tenuously balanced house of cards. Perspective | Cheating ruins everything about sports. The Astros got what they deserved. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet in fact it was a house of cards - only the fear of Russian intervention kept it standing. When crowds toppled communism's house of cards 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “All of the social achievements we’ve worked for are collapsing like a house of cards.” Self-Checkout in France Sets Off Battle Over a Day of Rest 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z And literally 30 days afterward, the whole house of cards came down. U.S. flooded nation with money, then turned a blind eye to corruption 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Weather may be an act of God, but it doesn’t take a storm to knock down a house of cards. Perspective | Air travel shows what happens when we give companies ruinous power over us 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In many ways I am surprised that Trump’s house of cards hasn't fallen apart sooner. Pulitzer winner David Cay Johnston: Will Trump's America ends in "firing squads"? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “It’s a house of cards built on a faulty foundation,” he said. Judge bans border activist from mentioning Trump in trial 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But they had built a house of cards, creating dummy corporations, granting loans to bank employees to buy shares, and entangling the company in real estate investments. 5 New York Buildings That Changed American History 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “It was always built on a house of cards,” Mr. Stein said. The U.S. Turned Syria’s North Into a Tinderbox. Then Trump Lit a Match. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Related Inside Faraday Future's financial house of cards The bankruptcy filings also provide a window into Faraday Future’s finances for the last year and a half. Faraday Future founder files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “It became a house of cards. In my opinion, the whole industry became a speculative bubble.” ‘We Were Wiped Out’: New Yorkers Preyed on Chicago Cabbies 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z In fact, the house of cards seemed to collapse quite suddenly this morning, when a White House reporter had the good sense to ask a question the president didn’t see coming. Accused of corruption, Trump claims to be on an anti-corruption crusade 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The number one industry in South Dakota is agriculture, Kent Lahren added -- but said the "house of cards is ready to collapse." Tomi Lahren’s personal plea to the President: Save American ranchers 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It's a reminder that conservatives know, on some level, that their authority is a house of cards, and that they don't deserve all the deference they get simply by being white, male or old. Why they're scared of Greta: Youth climate activist has the trolls in retreat 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “I think its because his finances are a house of cards.” Trump’s tax returns required under new California election law 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The house of cards that is the Trump economy is collapsing. Opinion | The Trump economy house of cards collapses 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z And are they prepared to contemplate the likelihood that the whole Freudian edifice was a house of cards? Why Freud Should Be Dead 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s a house of cards,” said Dr. Coley King, a physician at the Venice Family Clinic. L.A. County’s homeless population is growing — but not as fast as they’re dying 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z This is the point where it is obligatory to note it might all be a house of cards. Historical or hysterical? Mariners’ magical start borders on the absurd, but oh what fun it is 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z "Typically in the form of payments designed to string along victims so as to prevent Mr. Avenatti's financial house of cards from collapsing." Feds portray Avenatti as con man; he calls charges 'bogus' 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z When his house of cards and Ponzi schemes crashed down around him, Pearlman fled to Indonesia, but was spotted by German tourists in Bali and arrested by the FBI. 'The great untold scandal': the sordid tale of boyband mogul Lou Pearlman 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Add in a moderation team that couldn’t keep up with the 450 hours of video that were being uploaded every minute, and it was a house of cards waiting to fall. The golden age of YouTube is over 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Gantz and the other top candidates from his Blue and White party held a news conference Monday, highlighting what the former general referred to as Netanyahu’s house of cards. Netanyahu says ‘bots’ are real after news report finds campaign used social network to sway election 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Behind the headlines: For Michael Avenatti, a luxury lifestyle built on a purported house of cards. Essential California: Memories of Vicks VapoRub, as strong as the scent of eucalyptus 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The GOP’s hysteria surrounding Schiff is a house of cards with a fake foundation. The problem with the Republican crusade against Adam Schiff 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z One critic likened Mr. Cahn’s prophecy project to a “fragile house of cards,” set to tumble down. #MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who Says the Bible Predicted Trump 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z He urged the public to resist being confused by the “witch hunt” and promised that the “house of cards” of the three corruption cases against him would soon collapse. Potential indictment leaves Israelis wondering if this is the beginning of the end for Netanyahu 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The prime minister is calling the case against him a "house of cards" predicting that it "will collapse soon". Is Netanyahu in more trouble now than ever before? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He described the allegations as a left-wing conspiracy to oust him and as a “house of cards” that would collapse soon after the election. Netanyahu should be indicted on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, Israel’s attorney general recommends 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He described the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses as “a house of cards,” saying they relied on each other’s flawed analyses. Md. trial on Census question closes with lawyers disagreeing over whether Trump officials conspired to add citizenship question survey 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z They played Go Fish and War, they made houses of cards, they watched “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.” “What Can You Do with a General” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Now with the Trump tariffs, China’s economic house of cards is collapsing. U.S. economic resilience spells Chinese model’s doom 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It is thought that the collapse of that structure, feebly supporting the already weakened and inhabited No. 65, brought down No. 65, like a house of cards. In a ‘French Detroit,’ a Housing Crisis Turns Deadly for Poor 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “When everything you do is through a lens of votes and there is not a core fundamental belief system, it’s a house of cards that eventually falls apart,” said Schlossberg. Virginia Senate election loss leaves Corey Stewart with uncertain future 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Related Inside Faraday Future's financial house of cards Faraday Future said Thursday that the arbitrators decided the startup can now look for outside investment while the fight with Evergrande continues. Faraday Future lays off some employees without severance while it seeks new funding 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z An enormous financial house of cards was constructed on a shaky foundation of subprime loans and federal regulators failed to see it. A decade after the financial crisis, many Americans are still struggling to recover 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z As an ever-enfolding house of cards, the movie manages to be cerebral and achingly emotional, freewheeling and meticulously calibrated, all at the same time. From ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Spirited Away,’ here are the 23 best movies of the 2000s. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z By then, Mr. Manafort’s financial house of cards was on the verge of collapse. The Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort: Greed, Deception and Ego 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The operation, nicknamed “house of cards”, was lauded by unnamed military officials in local media as a huge success against its enemies. Israel at 70: jubilant US embassy opening masks fevered times 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Without good schools, Georgia’s economic foundation will collapse like a house of cards. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z “This whole thing is built on a house of cards,” said state Sen. Tom Holland, of Baldwin City, who like other Democrats believes tax cuts should wait. Kansas lawmakers advance spending, tax-cutting proposals 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z His near total focus is protecting the house of cards on which his presidency - like his fortune - is built. Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s kind of umbrella coverage for the whole crooked house of cards we call our lives. An Easter life lesson in parenting 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z On 12 May, Trump is expected to repudiate the Iran nuclear deal – potentially toppling the whole Middle East house of cards. Simon Tisdall | Will clashes over Gaza cause a wider Middle Eastern conflict? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Others work in teams to build a house of cards with one student blindfolded, another using only one hand, one not speaking and another wearing sound canceling headphones. ‘School of Innovation’ lets students get comfortable 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z “There are so many demonstrably false statements in what Rodchenkov has put in his affidavits and what he said publicly that it’s essentially a house of cards.” N.B.A. Owner Backs Lawsuit Against Russian Doping Whistle-Blower 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z As for the U.S., sometimes I think we are a house of cards run by Kevin Spacey. Daniel Ellsberg Thinks We’re in Denial About Nuclear War 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It is like a house of cards both within Trumps mind and the mind of his supporters. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “It is the construction of a house of cards.” Hinkley Point: the ‘dreadful deal’ behind the world’s most expensive power plant 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Climate science isn’t a set of dominoes or a house of cards; it’s a towering structure built on a strong scientific foundation. New study uncovers the 'keystone domino' strategy of climate denial | Dana Nuccitelli 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In closing arguments, Ms. Peterson called the prosecution a “house of cards,” adding, “There are any number of reasons to doubt in this case.” Libyan Convicted of Terrorism in Benghazi Attacks but Acquitted of Murder 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps we really are a house of cards. Daniel Ellsberg Thinks We’re in Denial About Nuclear War 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z If Trump ever admitted; took responsibility; or apologized even once for anything, no matter how small and innocuous the house of cards will come tumbling down. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “Hopefully person after person will tell their story, and it’s a house of cards.” Second accuser backs actor Anthony Edwards' molestation allegation against producer Gary Goddard 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Goodkind’s central estimate, she adds, relies on “building a house of cards” through a series of assumptions about data inputs. Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In Iraq, the regular armed forces were in disarray after collapsing like a house of cards in the face of the onslaught on Mosul by a few hundred IS militants. Islamic State group: The full story 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Across from the apartments, the rest home folded like a house of cards. A small town in Texas. A huge explosion. An unsolved mystery — and the long road back. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z They then use the borrowed funds to buy more of the bonds. It’s like a house of cards. Opinion | Greenspan’s warning went deeper than the stock market 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z I begin to have visions of my microbiome – the mix of bacteria that ensures good gut health – collapsing like a house of cards. My week without plastic: 'I found a toothbrush made of pig hair' 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “When the Anbang house of cards finally collapses, who will gain control of these senior care facilities in B.C.?” Canadian Nursing Home Deal Spurs Questions About Chinese Money 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z China is a house of cards and — pardon the pun — America holds the Trump card. Donald Trump ups the pressure as North Korea endgame looms 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith concurred, saying: “It’s a house of cards. If enough of the cards are weak, it’s impossible to prop up.” Brazil’s Crisis: How Fighting Corruption Could Imperil Political Stability 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z In written comments, the group said relying on federal standards would amount to a "meaningless house of cards." Automakers ask California to ease rules for self-driving car tests 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Shortly afterward, he obscured the brick within a painstakingly assembled house of cards, then made it disappear. The Magician Who Wants to Break Magic 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The legislature’s “neighborhood schools” proposal in House Bill 151 is a logistical house of cards. Kentucky editorial roundup 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It took less than a year for the whole house of cards to come tumbling down. The tech winners and losers of 2016 (hint: Facebook – and Facebook) 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Without that, Durant wrote: “This house of cards will quickly collapse, leaving Oregon in a fiscal crisis.” Editorials from around Oregon 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z You can build your own house of cards and watch it fall. Remembering a time when downtown Washington was gritty, not pretty 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z "The announcement is not the truth at all and but a house of cards built on repeated imagination and speculation that completely ignores objective evidence," said Jung Youn-kuk. South Korea's presidential scandal - BBC News 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The political system is a house of cards which is falling down. Jill Stein: 'We Have Crossed the Rubicon in This Election' 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z But one shock to this country economically, and we will fall apart like a house of cards. These Jobs Numbers Show an Economy That Is Basically Healthy 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But from his deep listening, patterns began to emerge, which enabled him to make connections between various songs — “to take the pieces apart and build this new house of cards,” as Riabko put it. 'It's pretty radical': Kyle Riabko on his tribute to the music of Burt Bacharach 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “The whole thing was built on a house of cards,” McGrath said. AT&T and Time Warner hope to break the cycle of failed mergers 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But in the aftermath of the asylum surge, Matherne’s business turned into what she called a “house of cards.” In an immigration court that nearly always says no, a lawyer’s spirit is broken 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Shanes instead found that he saw no evidence there was ever a set of “new” X-rays and without such evidence, Calusinski’s attorneys case “falls apart like a house of cards.” Judge denies new trial motion in day care murder case 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It ends with a hint at a game mechanic — the core concept of building houses of cards. Watch the first teaser for Where Cards Fall, the somber follow-up to Alto’s Adventure 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z This is not "house of cards" or "game of thrones" or "madmen" or "superman" or a supposed "reality show". If Tim Kaine Can Help Clinton in Virginia Even a Bit, It’s a Big Deal 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “The compromise version looks like a house of cards,” Leonardo Trasande, a New York University professor who studies environmental health, said after it passed Congress. President Obama Just Approved an Overhaul Regulation on Thousands of Chemicals 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The trouble is, the house of cards collapses pretty quickly for anyone who pauses to think about the argument. GOP congressman: 'Muslim community' wants to kill all gays 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Without them, the movie falls apart, like a house of cards. More of the same in ‘Now You See Me 2’ — for better or for worse 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z "The houses of cards become homes for characters, platforms to traverse, places to visit, and so much more," Rosenthal told The Verge back in March. Watch the first teaser for Where Cards Fall, the somber follow-up to Alto’s Adventure 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z "I don't think we have the heartburn that we once did. We still have that urgency to keep moving forward, but not that heartburn that maybe it's a house of cards," he said. Obama to find Indiana county still dependent on RV industry 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Just last week, Trump drew yet more chortles with his suggestion that the tech sector was a financial house of cards poised for collapse. Trump candidacy unites Silicon Valley — in horror 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z “The compromise version looks like a house of cards,” says Leonardo Trasande, a New York University professor who studies environmental health. Will Congress's Chemical Safety Reform Protect Us? It Depends 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “It’s a bit of a house of cards,” Johnson said. South Dakota beer makers eye state laws amid growth 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z This argument contends that Valeant is a house of cards waiting to be brought down by an inevitable accounting scandal. Explaining Valeant: The Main Theories 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “But when you give working-class people the facts, I think he falls apart. He’s a house of cards.” This is labor’s plan to try and derail Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z "Beyond doubt, the newly revealed evidence suffices to undermine confidence in Wearry's conviction," the court said, adding that the evidence that was used to win his conviction "resembles a house of cards." Supreme court reverses Louisiana death row inmate's conviction 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The high court said the state’s trial evidence “resembles a house of cards” built on the questionable testimony of a prison informant who other inmates said was seeking revenge against Wearry. High court reverses conviction of Louisiana death row inmate 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z If you want the heady days of the Wall St casino action where everybody were becoming house of cards millionaires then by all means return to the glory days of yesteryear when Obama leaves. How Much More Can the Labor Force Grow? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It seems the assumption that cutting stimulus would have no effect on the trajectory of the economy was the bad assumption that brings the house of cards that Friedman stacked down. Uncovering the Bad Math (or Logic) of an Economic Analysis Embraced by Bernie Sanders 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z They married in 2008, but as they forged a new life together, their financial house of cards was toppling. Too poor to retire and too young to die 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But as mortgage premiums grew while incomes stagnated, the scheme became a house of cards. “The Big Short’s” shortcomings: The real culprits in the financial meltdown never paid for their crimes, but still, it’s not all gloom and doom 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z All the timeframes we’d been given by the doctors, all the possibilities and prognoses, collapsed in on themselves like a house of cards. That Dragon, Cancer and the weird complexities of grief 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A simple protest The incident that sent Vlad’s life tumbling down like a house of cards is almost indecently trivial. Death of a Russian teenager who opposed the war in Ukraine 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The objections are something of a house of cards: All else equal, an improvement in Trump’s poll numbers causes a further improvement by making the objections harder to sustain—a preference cascade. House of (Anti-Trump) Cards 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The U.S. insists upon enhanced international norms and practices around verification, which it sees as essential to prevent the approach of voluntary commitments from becoming a house of cards. Why China and the U.S. Have Found Common Purpose on Climate Change 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Instead, it focuses on the few people who figured out that the whole banking system was a house of cards and that the bubble was going to burst. “The Big Short’s” shortcomings: The real culprits in the financial meltdown never paid for their crimes, but still, it’s not all gloom and doom 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Any threat of an earnings shortfall endangers their house of cards. The Ethical Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z "Our marriage was like a fragile house of cards," he said. Saeed Jaffrey obituary: Indian star who enjoyed global fame - BBC News 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The Syria talks are proceeding in a careful, step-by-step process that’s as delicate as building a house of cards. The diplomatic high wire over Syria 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Of course, the theory collapses like a five-foot house of cards if you fuss with an individual part. Pokémon's most adult fan theory explained and dissected 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And now the whole house of cards has collapsed. How Kevin McCarthy predicted his own demise 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z "The majority's determination that the death penalty is unconstitutional under our state constitution is based on a house of cards, falling under the slightest breath of scrutiny," Chief Justice Chase Rogers wrote in August. Prosecutors seek to re-argue case that ended Connecticut death penalty 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Since then, his reputation, like that of most of his contemporaries, has not so much collapsed like a house of cards as shrunk like a boiled head. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Not long after the phenomenal meltdown of LTCM, it became obvious to me, and many others, the whole financial system was a house of cards built on leverage and debt. When Genius Fails Again 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Then, Pelosi said she’d vote against the bill, other Democrats followed suit and the trade assistance bill collapsed like a house of cards. Trading Places: Democrats Thwart Obama, Sidetrack TPP 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In other words, a house of cards that was just waiting for the first piece to fall. China’s richest man might have been running a massive fraud 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “The commonwealth’s entire case was a house of cards resting on testimony that trial counsel should have exposed as incompetent, unreliable and inadmissible,” wrote his new lawyer, Al Lindsay. Sandusky appeal seeks to have molestation case thrown out 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Many of the game’s most popular mods rely on other mods to function, a house of cards that could come tumbling down if one of the creators decides to charge for their software. Are Valve's paid mods tearing the Skyrim community apart? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z As the law takes root and the public learns for itself that the myths aren’t true, the right’s house of cards is slowly crumbling. Public support shifts in ACA's favor 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Longer than that, he says, “and the whole house of cards starts to fall apart,” meaning that the risk of blood clots, pneumonia and other complications increases. Hibernation for humans may not be a pipe dream forever 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The first was that the DOJ would find the city of Ferguson’s finances to be a house of cards built upon a foundation of anti-tax absolutism and white supremacy. America’s “Ferguson” confusion: Why the problem has been completely misunderstood 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The problem, in his view: When the market for tech stocks cools, Facebook’s valuation will plummet, so will spending on speculative apps, and the whole app-install house of cards will collapse. Why Can't Facebook's App Install Ads Get Any Respect? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He told Italian broadcaster RAI that such an exit would see the euro fall like a "house of cards". Greece 'may go elsewhere for deal' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Here’s my personal favorite: “Let’s hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters.” The S&P Settlement Is Odious—And Business as Usual 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Some observers see these events as part of a story of China cracking down on Macau casinos: How the Communist Party knocked down Macau’s house of cards in just six weeks, the Sunday Post blared. Mainland Goliath Slays David Junket Group, But Beijing Moves Overblown 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Without high land sales, local government revenues are in trouble, and the house of cards that is local government debt may jeopardise financial stability. Xi Jinping and his China Dream 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Another highlight is a giant but fragile-looking house of cards close to Amsterdam’s central railroad station built of 125 light boxes decorated as playing cards by 40 contemporary street artists. Art festival lights up Amsterdam in dark winter 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z They like to say the stock market is just a house of cards and that it’s completely manipulated by the Fed. A Rational Case For Stocks Rising Another 45% By The End Of 2015 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z If QE spurs the construction of a financial house of cards, the argument runs, its eventual collapse may hurt more than QE ever helped. Early retirement 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z This is where the “house of cards” theory resides. Who Owns The Most U.S. Debt? 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z And yet Arbeloa too talked about being well-worked tactically, about unity and about players fulfilling their duty: “If one doesn’t, fine. If two or three don’t, it collapses like a house of cards.” Real Madrid’s clásico win down to Carlo Ancelotti’s calm rebuilding 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z They may be interrelated, but that does not mean they are a house of cards i.e. the failure to reach one goal does not de facto mean the others are not achievable. Founders And Entrepreneurs Must Learn How Much Pressure Is Too Much Pressure 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z He has even warned that unless the church finds a new balance between adherence to doctrine and pastoral care, “the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards”. Catholic church must listen to beat of this age, Pope Francis tells bishops 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z A security camera captured the moment the building fell like a house of cards. Of prophets and profits 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Their home was singed and cluttered but didn’t bend and twist the way so many others did in the mobile home park, which looked like a blown-over house of cards in some spots. Magnitude-6.0 earthquake hits in N. Calif., hurting dozens and rattling wine country The modern world is a house of cards built upon encryption. Quantum computers to crack the world 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z But once the cheering died down, Argentina’s economy collapsed like a house of cards. Argentina Defaults After Debt Talks Collapse 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As I detail in my upcoming book, EXTREMIST, an objective study of Islam demonstrates that the myth of Islamic Jew hatred crumbles like a house of cards. Debunking the Extremist Myth That Islam is Anti-Jewish 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z “What we showed is that their case was a house of cards built on speculation and innuendo,” La Sota said. Prosecutor reinstates Horne campaign finance case 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z "Through my own stupid actions I completely tore my house of cards down and I would do anything in the world to build that back up again," he said. Teacher who smuggled drugs banned 2014-05-09T14:20:12Z And it would be a house of cards.” Who Killed Anna Mae? 2014-04-25T15:27:49Z If the decision stands and other players at other universities try to unionize, the N.C.A.A.’s house of cards could collapse. Sports of The Times: A Victory for Athletes as University Employees 2014-03-27T03:33:43Z “These five defendants played crucial roles in constructing and maintaining the house of cards that was the Madoff investment fraud,” U.S. Five former Madoff aides convicted in Ponzi scheme 2014-03-24T23:32:26Z "As the jury unanimously found, these five defendants played crucial roles in constructing and maintaining the house of cards that was the Madoff investment fraud," US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. Ex-Madoff staff guilty of conspiracy 2014-03-24T19:56:39Z The "Minsky moment", a term coined by later economists, is the moment when the whole house of cards falls down. Did Hyman Minsky find the secret behind financial crashes? 2014-03-24T01:14:46Z “The kind of success Nick has had in the game, you just can’t fake it. You get called out eventually if you are a house of cards.” Nick Bollettieri, Still Building His Tennis Legacy at 82 2014-02-28T18:05:58Z A legacy is a delicate thing, a house of cards in a humid room. Super Bowl 2014: John Elway tastes success leading Denver Broncos from the front office 2014-01-26T23:02:52Z “When these million people stop buying at these high prices, that’s when the house of cards will start falling price wise.” $10: One Perspective On What Bitcoin Will Be Worth In 2014 2014-01-15T19:17:00Z This e-mail from an S&P employee, uncovered by a congressional investigation, says it all: “Let’s hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters.” Why Congress and Standard & Poor's Deserve Each Other 2011-11-10T02:35:00Z And the ending is actually pretty good, though it’s only as strong as the house of cards stacked beneath it. 'Call Of Duty: Ghosts' Review: Some People Call Me A Space Cowboy 2013-11-06T22:37:00Z In the interview, Francis reaffirmed traditional church teachings, but said the church must "find a new balance" or risk seeing its entire moral edifice collapse "like a house of cards." U.S. Catholics back Pope Francis on changing church's focus 2013-10-04T10:03:10Z “Otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.” The Pope Francis miracle 2013-09-23T14:56:22Z The confessional, Francis warned them, is "not a torture chamber"; without mercy, he said, "even the moral edifice of the Church is likely to fall like a house of cards". Pope message heralds change of tone on gays, abortion 2013-09-20T17:47:12Z He warned that the Church's moral structure could "fall like a house of cards" unless it changed. Pope: Church 'must heal wounds' 2013-09-19T17:29:54Z The email, sent to clients of independent research firm Hedgeye Risk Management, said Kinder Morgan and its associated companies "is a house of cards, completely misunderstood and mispriced." Young analyst draws Wall Street ire taking on Kinder Morgan 2013-09-09T18:44:27Z “Officials have this bunker mentality, but now it’s like a house of cards is falling down,” Ms. Strickman said. Hunger Strike by California Inmates, Already Large, Is Expected to Be Long 2013-07-11T00:32:37Z And his is usually a house of cards--like Syria. Putin? Ahmadinejad? Those Guys Are Nothing To A Business Owner 2013-07-03T22:33:00Z Rudd nominated Abbott's chosen issues of "debt and deficit", asylum policy and carbon policy as the first subjects for debate, saying in each area Abbott's policies "rest on a house of cards". Kevin Rudd: Abbott doesn't have the 'ticker' to debate me on policy 2013-07-03T10:05:54Z That is why the house of cards Obama and crew have built is so dangerous, and why it's important to press on things that are obviously down-played or even plainly covered-up. Joe Klein: Republicans Chasing Their Tails on Benghazi 2013-05-08T16:05:22Z On April 24, 400 people died when an eight-story building on the outskirts of Dhaka, , collapsed like a house of cards. Viewpoint on Bangladesh Disaster: It’s Not All About the West 2013-05-02T09:45:53Z The building fell “like a house of cards,” he said. Deadly Blast Guts Building in French City 2013-04-28T23:32:42Z Otherwise, you may be walking into a house of cards – or lies. Think You Believe in Your Company? Here's the Real Test 2013-03-25T12:40:52Z "It's a house of cards," said one senior defense official who is familiar with the F-35 program, but was not authorized to speak publicly. Insight: Expensive F-35 fighter at risk of budget "death spiral" 2013-03-15T20:12:09Z As a large monoculture, it is a vulnerable house of cards, precariously perched on publicly funded subsidies. It s Time to Rethink America s Corn System 2013-03-05T15:45:00.580Z I thought, Oh, my God, this is a house of cards! Robin Chase: How I Survived a Huge Screw-up 2013-02-28T14:20:56Z "Kind of a house of cards deal with me," he said Wednesday. Rangers' Berkman says calf strain is no issue 2013-02-20T19:17:15Z Building the brain is like a house of cards. Autism and Schizophrenia May Develop During Infancy 2013-02-12T19:50:23Z "A budget that's predicated on savings from changes in the pension contribution is, we think, a house of cards," said Sharon Ward, executive director of the left-leaning Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center. Analysis: Pennsylvania pension "fix" could add to woes 2013-02-10T14:04:21Z Netflix’s original series, “House of Cards” has not been entirely panned — welcome news to those eager to see the traditional television model topple, much like, well, a house of cards. Television’s house of cards 2013-02-06T00:47:35Z "Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters." DealBook: Case Details Internal Tension at S.&P. Amid Subprime Problems 2013-02-05T18:55:37Z Their lives had rested on his back like a house of cards. Nicole Krauss: “Zusya on the Roof.” 2013-01-28T05:00:00Z The movement's website in Siena compared the bank to a "house of cards where the pieces are falling every day." Derivatives scandal drags Monte Paschi into Italy election race 2013-01-23T16:18:58Z Use Less Leverage Excessive leverage — otherwise known as over-borrowing — was one of the chief foundations of the house of cards that collapsed so violently in 2008. Opinion: Financial Collapse: A 10-Step Recovery Plan 2013-01-19T17:13:04Z When they do, it’s likely that “House of Cards” will be pointed to as the one small nudge for the digital-native kind that sent traditional programming’s own house of cards tumbling down. Television’s house of cards 2013-02-06T00:47:35Z And while he acknowledges that sometimes the whole situation “feels like a house of cards,” he does not feel sorry for himself. One Illness After Another, and an Eviction Looming 2012-12-26T01:26:36Z I have suggested that the discipline may be a house of cards — as, by extension, may much research into the chronic diseases associated with obesity, such as diabetes. Treat obesity as physiology, not physics 2012-12-12T18:20:11.473Z A123’s bankruptcy is a sign that the Obama administration’s green house of cards continues to collapse. Battery maker that received stimulus money could be sold to Chinese company 2012-12-06T01:42:00Z Instead, we've merely bought time for the profiteers to rearrange themselves and get out from under their house of cards. America's bank bailouts: They did not have to be so unfair 2012-10-31T12:38:41Z With the new charges we announce today against these five previously indicted defendants, the architecture of Madoff’s house of cards and each defendant’s alleged role in it becomes clearer.” Wall Street Regulation Goes Hollywood 2012-10-02T14:11:34Z Its government collapsed like a house of cards earlier this year to the shock of complacent outsiders, who had hailed the country as a democratic exemplar. News Analysis: Summer of Siege For West Africa as Discontent Shakes Streets 2012-09-08T18:51:35Z Another analyst emailed a colleague: "Let's hope we're all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters." Financial crisis: 25 people at the heart of the meltdown – where are they now? 2012-08-06T19:49:32Z "That house of cards will, it is submitted, collapse at trial." Metals magnates trade blows as London case opens 2012-07-09T19:51:16Z Meanwhile the house of cards remains--all that's been done is barely a dent in the unfunded/unfundable future liabilities that pass for assets within the financial system. America's bank bailouts: They did not have to be so unfair 2012-10-31T12:38:41Z “The Madoff investment empire, built on a foundation of deceit, was a house of cards that grew to skyscraper proportions,” she said. Peter Madoff Pleads Guilty to Role in Ponzi Scheme; Blames Infamous Brother 2012-06-29T16:51:46Z We are living in a very precariously perched house of cards thanks, in large part, to the banking industry. Global financial markets and the economy: Five years on 2012-06-25T13:03:02Z "Why would we go back to those same policies that ended up being a house of cards that led to the economic crisis in the first place?" On bus tour, Romney takes economic pitch to heartland 2012-06-15T17:18:17Z This practice, say critics, builds a house of cards on potentially shaky foundations. Replication studies: Bad copy 2012-05-16T17:50:38.140Z And in 2008, that house of cards collapsed in the most destructive crisis since the Great Depression. READ: President Obama?s speech kicking off his reelection campaign 2012-05-06T16:28:53Z The rest of the race was just like a house of cards. Washington men favored to win sixth straight Windermere Cup 2012-05-04T03:10:26Z The former are enduring and grand; the latter, almost like houses of cards. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z "And the commodore will go with me," said Mrs. Kip, turning her soft eyes towards Etheridge, who went down before the glance like a house of cards. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z The other shows a house of cards with Bank of America logos and dollar bills on each card, a real-estate sign that reads “ethics for sale” and the phrase “expose unethical banking” below. Unreleased WikiLeaks Posters Promote The Bank Of America Leak That Never Appeared 2012-02-22T19:25:30Z The house of cards had been kicked over by her clumsy foot, and must be recommenced from the foundations. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z It was out at last, and the boss's poor little house of cards that I knew he had been building all these months had got its knock-down in just those four quietly spoken words. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z And, of a sudden, the fabric of prosperity collapsed like a house of cards. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z "I thought that our house was built on a house of cards in the first place, but we were able to get away with some things," Stringer said. No. 2 Irish women win 19th straight game 2012-02-01T09:41:08Z My house of cards tumbled down in a second. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Indeed, it was upon that hint that Pharamond was acting now; for, alas, alas, the astute one was but playing a new r�le, preparing new foundations for his tumbled house of cards. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z He described the economy under his Republican predecessor as “a house of cards.” Obama Casts Election as Fight to Rescue Economy From Wealth Gap 2012-01-25T07:04:43Z Countries are a house of cards – and when the bottom few cards fall down they all topple over. MBAs & Rock Stars: Gene Simmons' Dream Big 2012-01-12T15:21:59Z Two seconds later came a loud swish, and two or three of the frail nipa shacks to the left and rear collapsed as though a ten-pin ball had struck houses of cards. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z And as he saw that gray deathmask of a face, Black Hood knew that all his carefully worked out solution had tumbled like a house of cards. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z The newly-laid foundations of the house of cards were just what they should be, but as circumstances alter cases, new plans must be drawn for the structure. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The bad prediction is easy enough, and that’s the Oracle patent case bringing down the whole house of cards. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Some Mobile Predictions for 2012 2012-01-01T23:09:46Z Then the whole car seemed to fall to pieces like a house of cards. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Something elaborately built up in his soul by years of artificial training collapsed like a house of cards, and he knew himself undone. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Then all her joy collapsed, her hopes collapsed—fell around her like a house of cards. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z His house of cards was making no progress; he seemed actually to be losing ground. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z After the meltdown of 2008, it is clearer that the “triumph of capitalism” was a house of cards built on debt. Why Investors Who Target Shareholder Value Lose 2011-12-07T18:03:22Z Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said the vote spelled the end of Putin's "honeymoon" with the nation and predicted that his rule will soon "collapse like a house of cards." Russia: Putin's Party Barely Hangs onto Its Majority 2011-12-05T10:50:00Z But a growing number of critics contend that Sir Richard’s charm and knack for publicity shelter a financial house of cards. India Ink: Dear Dr. Mallya, Sir Richard Is On the Line 2011-11-17T11:28:35Z For two years past, to my knowledge, and probably for many more, you've been building up a house of cards. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z He took over a Duke program he described as "a house of cards" and built it into one of college basketball's most powerful brand names. Mike Krzyzewski chases his old mentor, and history 2011-11-15T02:03:44Z He took over a Duke program he described as “a house of cards” and built it into one of college basketball’s most powerful brand names. Duke?s Mike Krzyzewski prepares for 1st attempt at record-breaking 903rd career win 2011-11-14T19:30:09Z Simultaneously, G�rtz was negotiating with Cardinal Alberoni and with the whigs in England; but all his ingenious combinations collapsed like a house of cards on the sudden death of Charles XII. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z For a moment the frankness of his manner had convinced her, but very soon her conviction collapsed like a house of cards as he went on speaking. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Ah, then your game is indeed ended and your house of cards blown down! The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Pretty amusement too, for a literary lady—building houses of cards! Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z Had we then marched to Ava, the Burmese Empire would have collapsed like a house of cards, and the events of 1885 been anticipated by sixty years. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z Jewson saw his elaborate plot falling asunder like a house of cards, and involving himself in its destruction. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z If the brown men struck for a week, the ‘Empire’ would collapse like a house of cards, and every ruling man would be a starving prisoner in his own house. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Puff! my mother has blown down my house of cards. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Viewed from afar, all these palaces seem like so many houses of cards. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Lawyers for the company and other creditors dismissed the insider trading allegations as a "house of cards" and part of a "carney show" of attacks. WaMu judge weighs closing arguments 2011-08-24T22:10:50Z This e-mail from an S&P employee, uncovered by a congressional investigation, says it all: “Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters.” Why Congress and Standard & Poor's Deserve Each Other 2011-08-17T15:45:00Z "Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters," one unnamed S&P analyst wrote. France feels the economic force of the credit ratings agencies 2011-08-12T16:51:36Z This email from an S&P employee, uncovered by a Congressional investigation, says it all: “Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters.” Why Congress and Standard & Poors Deserve Each Other 2011-08-08T10:05:00Z My mercy me! the whole thing will be down like a house of cards in ten minutes, and we shall be drowned.” Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z But such a tottering house, such a dream-built, precarious house of cards!— Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Most of all know that this fragile house of cards we call our internetworked global communications infrastructure is under attack. What WILL YOU Do WHEN Nothing Works? 2011-07-08T16:40:42Z Such a structure suggests a house of cards in its most rudimentary form—when one card is laid against another and thus an edifice like roof without walls is formed. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Not only had his house of cards gone down with a flutter—for he could read no compromise here—but he was threatened with the summary vengeance of an unknown and vindictive parent. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Are you going to fold like a house of cards or are you going to stand up and get after it again? Sounders FC 4, N.Y. Red Bulls 2, postgame quotes and stats 2011-06-24T06:19:04Z "Like a child that has been startled, like a child when an unkind shake has scattered its house of cards." Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Nothing would please him more than to see her pretensions collapse like a house of cards. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Never was a house of cards of so many stories. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z They were building their businesses on a house of cards. Scenes From A Silicon Valley Bubble 2011-05-27T03:30:38Z A Saudi revolt would scatter the house of cards, that is Washington's unquiet melange of realpolik and progressive morality. Double standards? 2011-05-16T03:14:50Z It is to assert that Stan O'Neal probably did not recognize that the mortgages his firm owned were a house of cards. Wall Street Isn't That Guilty 2011-05-12T21:00:09Z If it does resist, it will fall like a house of cards. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Ireland or Portugal need only imply that without more aid it will be forced to leave the euro zone and bring down the proverbial house of cards. Economic View: Euro vs. Invasion of the Zombie Banks 2011-04-16T15:51:12Z He saw his life crumbling about him like a house of cards. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z To-night the whole house of cards had toppled anyway, and the ultimate worst had happened, save only that the police had not yet got their steel bracelets around his wrists. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z They fell as suddenly as they had been built; they broke down like a house of cards. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z But by the end of the decade, Kusa’s carefully constructed house of cards had started to fall apart. How Gaddafi Friended Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi 2011-03-06T05:00:00Z United's defenders, in the shape of Rafael, Michael Carrick and Brown, collapsed like a house of cards as the Uruguayan weaved his way towards goal. Liverpool 3-1 Manchester United 2011-03-06T15:26:48Z As the huge projectiles struck the buildings they collapsed like houses of cards, and soon there was scarcely a street in the southern quarter of the town which was not battered into shapeless ruin. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z I suppose in time the regular repetition of shocks does wear out hope, and then I imagine one's youth collapses like a house of cards. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Turbulent winds are blowing through the Arab world and American-backed houses of cards may fall. Egypt’s ‘Hot Wind’ Exposes U.S. Dilemma: Aaron David Miller 2011-02-08T03:04:38Z There is no halting the momentum now, just as there was no stopping the communist house of cards from crumbling in Eastern Europe 20 years ago. Egyptian Tinderbox Hangs on Deadly Mix of Emotion: Andre Aciman 2011-02-01T02:05:40Z Then, abruptly, her house of cards tumbled about her ears. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z "It's more evidence the house of cards is crumbling on this system," said Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Company to stop making drug commonly used in executions 2011-01-22T03:00:01Z The house of cards came tumbling down in 2008 after he bought heavily into American investment bank , thinking the US government was about to bail it out. City trader admits defrauding hundreds of people in ?14m 'ponzi' scheme 2011-01-12T14:38:21Z They thought everything was just fine, until the house of cards eventually collapsed in 2007-2008. America's housing bubble still deflating 2011-01-05T14:00:01Z “My life disintegrated like a house of cards,” she told the newspaper. Russian Spy Tale Rattles Czechs 2010-12-24T02:38:03Z "The individual mandate is a crucial part of the overall house of cards upon which Obamacare is built." Federal judge in Va. strikes down part of health-care law 2010-12-14T05:49:00Z “Once you start collapsing various parts of the industry, everything is going to fall apart like a house of cards.” Senate Vote Is Scheduled for Bailout of City OTB 2010-12-06T03:35:00Z "The fact of the matter is that Facebook is built on a viral marketing house of cards," says Jeff Chester, founder of the Center for Digital Democracy and one of Facebook's fiercest foes in Washington. Facebook Sells Your Friends 2010-09-23T03:01:00Z During the discussions, he asked: “What was it like to be at a friend’s wedding, or a bar, when you knew that the whole house of cards was about to collapse?” Kevin Spacey Film Explores Humanity on Wall St. 2010-07-12T03:46:00Z This is a victory, but each script then becomes its own house of cards that is difficult to change. How IT Will Conquer Complexity 2010-05-18T10:00:00Z Baugur collapsed like a house of cards in the credit crunch with any investments that were worth anything seized by the administrators of the defunct Icelandic banks.. Iceland seeks retribution from J?n ?sgeir J?hannesson 2010-05-15T23:06:00Z Europe is a house of cards surrounded by dominoes resting on a waterbed. This week: Anjoum Noorani, Greece and John Bercow 2010-04-30T23:17:00Z “Now it looks like a house of cards that has totally collapsed.” Oil Spill?s Blow to BP?s Image May Eclipse Its Cost 2010-04-30T01:12:00Z If we don’t get strong growth in employment and income, we’re really just building this up as a house of cards.” From Docks to Dealerships, Signs of Economic Turn 2010-04-26T01:50:00Z Many people are wondering, with good reason, what the social utility of such a house of cards might be. Credit default swaps: What are they good for? 2010-04-20T23:21:00Z He, too, realized that this confirmation of his belief had brought a portion of the postulation fluttering down like a house of cards, and he was seeking a mental readjustment. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager "But," added Craig, as if he had built up a house of cards merely to demolish it, "I don't think that cyanogen was the cause of Delaney's death—although it furnished the clew." The Social Gangster But don't you see, my dear Mallory, that all your midnight madness topples down like a house of cards unless your daughter's informant—her fellow-prisoner, as you call him—is a credible witness. A Traitor's Wooing It is not likely that Aristotle should have contradicted himself in so vital a matter, and in a manner which simply means that his system falls to the ground like a house of cards. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Now they seemed to have increased, not only in number, but in weight; yet, when he came to analyse it all, the whole fabric tumbled to pieces like a house of cards. The Red Rat's Daughter The orchestra played a deafening tune, when suddenly the pyramid shook, one of the noses at the base fell out, and the whole pyramid collapsed like a house of cards! Round the World in Eighty Days Down went poor Lambert’s house of cards, crumpled in the dust. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The man suffered agonies as he sat there, realising his shattered hopes—the fair and priceless structure of his life’s happiness levelled to the earth like a house of cards. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Now all these glorious visions had collapsed like a house of cards, and in the future Mahdiism to live would have to be enforced. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 "Of course he should have done so," sighed Sybil, as the fairy castle she had built for the girl fell like a house of cards. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" Fair as it seemed, it proved a house of cards, and with the sister’s death it fell. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half All your plans and schemes never deceived me; but it's a house of cards you 're building, after all! Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day It looks as unstable as a house of cards, ready for a collapse at the first gentle breeze. Cathedrals of Spain I had, with my imagination built a house of cards which had tottered. The Portal of Dreams If they fall back or are forced back an inch their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. The Story of General Pershing But he took his doom into his own hands and built it up like a house of cards. Ancestors A Novel And then the whole house of cards collapsed. Timar's Two Worlds But it would be much worse going back again, leaving the house of cards, which I had come so far to see, lying in ruins behind me. The House by the Lock It is upon this implied proposition that all their arguments are based; this is the primary postulate upon which rests their whole house of cards. Are we Ruined by the Germans? Once that revelation has come to them, and once the subjects refuse to support their rulers and are determined to resist them, the whole fabric of government collapses like a house of cards. German Problems and Personalities The upbuilding of the labor movement has seemed at times like constructing a house of cards: often it was hardly begun before some ill wind cast it down. Violence and the Labor Movement And now she had to see her house of cards tremble and portend collapse. When Ghost Meets Ghost This house of cards, built on lies and deception, would immediately collapse if our enemies were now to refuse negotiations and thus would have to admit openly their desire for conquest. My Three Years in America Now the house of cards has tumbled to pieces, or rather it is slowly dissolving, as Shakespeare says, "like the baseless fabric of a vision". Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Such preposterous houses of cards, said the Morning Post, cannot expect to last long in a world which is, in the main, a sensible place. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings "My house of cards has come tumbling down about my ears, until I think it must be a dreadful dream." Wings of the Wind It is dangerous to start rumors against even the soundest of banks, because our present-day finance is no more than a house of cards built precariously on Public Confidence. Wunpost I refuse to admit that our shining little world is only a house of cards. Money Magic A Novel How is it that the whole house of cards falls down together? Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium That palace of theory which I reared, in pride and self-confidence, high above all silly objections has fallen like a house of cards at the first breath of wind. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I A bomb fell in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, and the houses on either side collapsed like houses of cards, falling into a sulphurous, fiery pit. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Public confidence is shaken–and the house of cards falls, carrying with it the fortunes of all. Wunpost At a breath––like a house of cards––the northern heritage was swept away and about all that remained of the principality was the worthless ancient deed itself, representing one of the largest colonial grants. The Strollers England will be our foe, and you will see her tumble to pieces like a house of cards. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Property values flopped like a house of cards and interest rates soared sky-high. The Spoilers of the Valley Now all his half-formed resolutions had come to the ground like a house of cards, and he was ending up worse than he had begun. Soldiers of the Queen Savine will go down like a house of cards some day, and those who lean upon him will find it, in our language, frosty weather. Thurston of Orchard Valley Archie’s house of cards seemed to be tumbling about his ears. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys It would have gone down like a house of cards if that heaving sea of destruction had turned our way. Letters on an Elk Hunt Finally, as the result of the accumulated structure of diplomatic relations and precedents, a situation arises to which adjustment, with the machinery that has been developed, is impossible and the whole house of cards collapses. Introduction to the Science of Sociology There was a snapping, grinding sound, and the house fell apart and slid into the dark waters as if it had been a house of cards. Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I say to you that the house would fall as a house of cards; the rich would flee; the poor would reign. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar When death did pick one of us, the whole structure of that family came tumbling down like a house of cards. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America Out of the blue sky the next morning, came a German artillery concentration which brought the tower down like a house of cards, and many British soldiers billeted in the neighborhood were killed or wounded. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Once brought face to face with Japanese life, our fabric of anticipation tumbles to pieces like a house of cards. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The house of cards so lovingly built up by Livingstone and his friends tumbled in a morning never to rise again. The Art of Disappearing The whole elaborate structure of her conception of Doggie tumbled down like a house of cards. The Rough Road It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour "Are we all here?" said the lad, as they reached the third heap, which had been an estaminet before a British 9.2 had brought it down like a house of cards. With Haig on the Somme All his plans for the future were like a house of cards and he scattered them with angry impatience. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands They have brought the towering Liberal majority tumbling like a house of cards. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 A false step, and down would fall all my plans like a house of cards. The Hero of Garside School All this fine position which Farrington had built up was a veritable house of cards. The Secret House A boy's grammar is a structure always ready to tumble, like a house of cards. Frank of Freedom Hill Their Government's protestations, that their purpose was self-defense and the freeing of small nations, fell like a house of cards before the revelation of their "peace terms." World's War Events, Vol. II Now his house of cards had come tumbling about his ears. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery Meanwhile the schemes of a life, the deeply-laid purposes of his revenge, were toppling unheeded all round him, like a house of cards. Emily Brontë Wimperley and the others will be up here soon, and regard me as a crazy idealist who inveigled them into building a house of cards. The Rapids Manhood, this summation of himself as masculine force and presence, had nothing tangible in it and could vanish quicker than the toppling of a house of cards. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Take care you don’t build up a romance that will fall to pieces like a house of cards at the first breath of reality. Dorothy's Travels It seemed as if his carefully planned move had fallen like a house of cards. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers All her carefully thought out plans seemed to be crumbling away like a house of cards; all that she wanted was to be in his arms . . . to be kissed. Mufti I saw two poor fellows trying to build up a pitiful little kind of house of cards with stones and pieces of anthill through which to fire. The Defence of Duffer's Drift This stronghold has certainly in industry proved to be a house of cards, and I think it has proved to be equally a house of cards in religion. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship If an enemy controls the sea the empire will fall apart like a house of cards, and the British Isles will be speedily starved into submission. A History of Sea Power If they fall back or are forced back an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 Two words from him would have wrecked the house of cards. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Like a house of cards his roseate dreams for the future had suddenly collapsed. Walter and the Wireless There was no Lord Blandamer, there was no title; with a breath he could sweep it all away like a house of cards. The Nebuly Coat Then arose Sir F. E. Smith, and with a few forensic gestures demolished the house of cards that Mr. Trevelyan had so laboriously erected. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 Diana's confession horrified her, and she saw that her own future at the Cape was knocked as flat as a house of cards that is demolished by the wayward hand of a child. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa How quickly his house of cards had fallen! Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport He saw the house of cards which he had constructed with such pains about to crumble before him. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion They were now blown down like a house of cards. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations. That Affair Next Door In the midst of the rejoicing comes old Boreas, as last winter, for instance, and blows down my house of cards. Children of the Tenements The playful but searching satire which the author has ever at command just touches the declamation of his opponent, and it falls like a house of cards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 I said, 'Are you not building houses of cards? The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 His hopes and ambitions had fallen like a house of cards. A Dog with a Bad Name A touch of them would have split the plates of this tall fabric like a house of cards. Major Vigoureux Our little toy train crosses a river several times on fragile bridges of beams, which seem as though they might at any moment collapse like a house of cards. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The policy to which he had devoted himself had tumbled like a house of cards. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Not to pull down your house of cards, this idea is not a new one. Highways in Hiding He boasts loudly of conquering it; the earth gives a little shiver and his cities collapse like the house of cards a child sets up. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Bounding from concealment, I tore off the layer roofing of the wigwam, plunged through the tapering pole frame, shaking the frail lean-to like a house of cards, and was beside Miriam. Lords of the North "After all," I began, "you know we've only to prove an alibi to knock to pieces this whole house of cards." The Holladay Case A Tale But when, in a short time, the Civil Wars broke out, their peaceful world collapsed like a house of cards. A Book of Quaker Saints His plans had come tumbling down like a house of cards. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North I "made" several, but they always went to bits, like a child's house of cards. Set in Silver And even as they did so the tottering side wall, that had so long been swaying, fell, and the shell of the burning hotel collapsed like a house of cards. Frank Merriwell's Reward Paris—the Paris of the Empire and of Haussmann—is a house of cards. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Had Mrs. Vrain been an imposter, her house of cards would have been knocked down, as soon as reared, by the searching inquiry instituted by the Sirius Assurance Company. The Silent House |
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