a sword of damocles in a sentence

"Today's decision removes a Sword of Damocles that was hanging over the heads of New Yorkers with rent-controlled or rent-stabilized tenancies,"
Uncertainties about the employee shares and the 20 percent held by the government has " been a sword of Damocles " hanging over the share price, said Pangaro.
"If such a principle were ever to be admitted, it would hang a sword of Damocles over every decision of the Security Council, " he said.
With the possibility of an ArbCom case hanging like a sword of Damocles, it's unlikely that you're going to get a lot of action on these requests.
What stopped them from taking that step ?'They react as if they have a sword of Damocles over their heads and they don't want to go there ."

Until the dispute is resolved, another daily, Haaretz, said, " The Phalcon will continue to be a sword of Damocles hanging over Israel's head ."
"This is a sword of Damocles that is going to hover over our heads for a long time, " she said in an interview with French daily Le Parisien.
However, once ( specific ) material on the page has had the desired effect, that ( no longer acute ) material should not be kept hanging around like a sword of Damocles.
"We cannot afford to have this issue as a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the executive, the legislature and even members of the Bench, " it said.
That agreement will hang like a sword of Damocles over our heads for all time and will convert the people of Gibraltar into the unreasonable, obdurate party which we believe that we are not,

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