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The prospect of a Super League has been the great Damoclean threat hanging over European soccer for the better part of two decades.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
But that mad minute in the Curtin detention centre still loomed, a Damoclean sword over Chegeni’s head.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2020
BBC3 With the Damoclean threat of BBC funding cuts being waved above Auntie's channels and stations, this new-talent comedy seems just the kind of show it should be investing in to justify its existence.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
But it is not just the case that the U.S. and China are locked in an inextricable economic embrace along the edge of a "Damoclean precipice"—another fashionable phrase within the Treasury.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 26, 2010
But my position, sir, is of Damoclean anxiety.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
