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Damoclean /ˌdaməˈkliːən /adjectiveThreatening and precarious: the parties charged are left in the Damoclean situation of never knowing when an old charge may spring back to life...- Something perhaps a hundred times worse still hangs over us, but not the Damoclean existential threat the real zealots want.
- The financial markets have roared back to only mirror the same Damoclean state that existed just before the 2008 crash.
- But with Brussels demanding action against the disease and the Damoclean threat of a ban on exports still suspended above the livestock sector, the demand for action is ever more urgent.
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