In 1844 there was a severe conflagration.

Such attacks might trigger a wider regional conflagration.

One thing worse than the moral obscenities of a civil war would be a regional conflagration.

Could something similar happen digitally, with a spark of misinformation igniting a conflagration and wreaking havoc before the truth is revealed?

That was the principle. You there would be a nuclear conflagration about to hit us, and if you get under your desk, things would be OK.

In turn, Egypt, propped up by massive US aid, has secured the region from a larger conflagration, even though the Israel Palestine conflict has continued to smolder.

He may have had the idea for the final cataclysmic conflagration while fighting in the 1848 1849 revolution in Dresden alongside the Russian anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin.

The Soviet Union may have been doomed, but the world has Gorbachev to thank for the fact that the empire he oversaw ended without a bloody conflagration.

The khan set the suburbs on fire on 24 May and a sudden wind blew the flames into Moscow and the city went up in a conflagration.

As the World Bank s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.

But, while Britain and Germany were each other s most significant trading partners in 1914, that did not prevent a conflagration that set back global economic integration for a half century.

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666.

As others before me have reminded us, this Organization, of which Australia is proud to have been a founding Member, arose in response to the tragic conflagration which engulfed the world between 1939 and 1945.

We have managed to prevent a nuclear conflagration, which would have been the last war in the history of humankind, but we were unable to prevent the many other wars in which millions of persons perished.

Extreme poverty is also conducive to the usurpation of power by force, the absence of democracy and, as a result, a lack of prospects for change, which, in combination with external factors, sometimes leads to a conflagration.

I pointed out the possibility of a Middle East conflagration equivalent to the Thirty Years War in Europe, which is estimated to have killed between half and three quarters of the population of some of the participating states.

Furthermore, including post conflict peacebuilding elements in the mandate of peacekeeping operations should be seen as an operational measure in other words, a move aimed at supporting the peacekeeping effort and preventing any conflagration or resurgence of the conflict.

2009 will be a tough year. Yet, absent a large scale conflagration, there is a fair chance that 2010 will see a restoration of weak growth in the US, Europe, and Japan, and probably robust growth in most emerging markets.

Although the major Italian banks were constructed on the same model as the German and Austrian banks whose collapse had ignited the global conflagration, and although the Italian banks were just as insolvent, the press never discussed these unpleasant problems.

Pakistan s willingness to allow its territory to be used for attacks against India, like the assault on Mumbai in November 2008, inevitably carries the risk of sparking a larger conflagration, and its refusal to sign a no first strike agreement with India is a serious cause for concern.

The prospect of a Middle East conflagration has prompted an airlift of senior American officials to Israel to warn of the devastating consequences that an Israeli attack on Iran might have. Indeed, the Obama administration s main challenge these days is not peacemaking, but regional conflict management and preemption.

But this ignores the principle that no military intervention will ever be legitimate unless it satisfies, among other criteria, the test of diminishing, not augmenting, human suffering. And going to war against any of the major powers to protect a suffering minority would certainly trigger a much wider conflagration.

But this ignores the principle that no military intervention will ever be legitimate unless it satisfies, among other criteria, the test of diminishing, not augmenting, human suffering. 160 And going to war against any of the major powers to protect a suffering minority would certainly trigger a much wider conflagration.