The model, called Damocles as in “sword of”, is an early-warning signal.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2003 ~ Angry Bear] Reference

I think it was called Damocles and involved B52 raids against Baghdad and Tehran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Post Wave economies.] Reference

The picture, by the way, is from a source aptly called Damocles, which processes data on Arctic melting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melting Ice] Reference

Under such sword, the conviction being that Humanity is as 'Damocles'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

Damocles hanging by a thread over Forrester's head!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

Damocles would descend, were essential ingredients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference

(Painting: Sword of Damocles, by Richard Westall, 1812).    From Wordnik.com.  [The sword still hangs above Gordon Brown's head] Reference

All that sort of sword of Damocles is hanging over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006] Reference

And it was a threat that was out there, a Damocles sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004] Reference

It is said that Damocles saw a sword suspended over his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Here, indeed, was the dread descent of the sword on Damocles.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

The hair had snapped and Damocles 'sword had certainly fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dixie School Girl] Reference

"I think you mean Damocles, captain," the lieutenant corrected.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference

The swaps hung "like the sword of Damocles over the neck of CSX.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Funds Faulted in CSX Row] Reference

She lived with this nightmare, this sword of Damocles over her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Interview: Sakineh's Attorney Speaks From Exile] Reference

WHEELER: The jail hangs over county government like Damocles 'sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007] Reference

You know, they've got this sordid Damocles hanging over their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2004] Reference

But this sword of Damocles business is beginning to get on my nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

Finally, one morning, he could endure this sword of Damocles no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Tank] Reference

That loan was like the sword of Damocles, swaying over Courtney's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage At A Price]

Seemed threat'ningly o'er him suspended, like Damocles 'sword, by a hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

Damocles, king of Arcadia, banished his daughter with her husband and son.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

It was the hackneyed fable of Damocles with the sword over his head over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

The Khmer Rouge were still a viable army, a Sword of Damocles waiting in the jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Two] Reference

For those who want to rely on the IPCC's models, a sword of Damocles hangsover them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

By my death, I am Damocles, with a blade poised above my head, sus pended by a horsehair!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

"It's like the sword of Damocles hanging over you," said bankruptcy attorney Harvey Miller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadline Presses Retailers] Reference

No less than a rhetorical Sword of Damocles hanging over private operators from the word go.    From Wordnik.com.  [A false dawn?] Reference

In other words, rare earths are the sword of Damocles hanging over Beijing's trading partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Up] Reference

"Then he has left that threat hanging, like the Sword of Damocles -- over Mrs. Atterson's head?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Pythagoras inaugurated his School of Silence, and called on Damocles to make the opening speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference

Getty Images The swaps hung 'like the sword of Damocles over the neck of CSX,' Judge Kaplan said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funds Faulted in CSX Row] Reference

Above the chairlift hangars the "machete of Damocles" and there is a signal that reads "REX RUFUS".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference

"The worst part is you have this sword of Damocles over your head the whole time," said one veteran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flummoxing The Feds] Reference

Ruth, there is a Damocles sword hanging over that nest of birds, and it is liable to fall at any moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

With the search still on, Pons warned the Miaras, "you will have the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Generation] Reference

There was no baby to utter a discordant note or to hang as a Damocles 'sword of apprehension over the heads of the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference