The wok shot caught fire three times.

Crimea itself represents a third potential flash point.

The hydrogen revolution has started, but with a slow burning fuse.

Where exactly the fire began is yet to be confirmed.

It takes off. It's a big woosh.

Once the gap fires, the electrical behavior of either circuit is identical.

Explosion proof electrical equipment should be used in such a bunker to minimise the risk of ignition.

So it was only a matter of time until this powder keg was ignited.

In addition, 200 stores were ransacked and the national parliament building was set on fire

As peaceful and quiet here then, as it is now, even though there was a war on.

This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia,

India has countered with its own draft accord designed specifically to prevent border flare ups.

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

NEW YORK Many conflicts are caused or inflamed by water scarcity.

This negative trend undeniably increases the risk of a conflagration throughout the West African region.

Alarmed by a potential conflict between the two archrivals, the Bush administration urged Chen, who won a second term in March, to exercise restraint.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked on.

What is needed is mainstream politicians who understand and respond to what is fueling popular rage.

This was over concerns about the threat of fire, as it is the second largest wooden building in the world.

We believe that this could forestall the flaring up of many regional crises, or contribute to their rapid prevention.

But Soludo s recent decision to create a sovereign wealth fund has ignited a firestorm.

24. Air pollution resulting from the burning oil wells in Kuwait represented a potential hazard to human health.

It was, of course, the death of former Party chief Hu Yaobang, a liberal like Zhao, which set off the protests in 1989.

All the staff hold their breath and wait for the fire chief to turn the fire and direct the fish swarm to the net set at the left tail side of the boat. Once the fire chief gives the order, saying Put it down, the netting team push the net into the sea.

Bahrain remains a flashpoint Iraq is deeply unstable and the simmering conflict between Iran and Israel could flare up at any time.

The extravagance outlook of the city is just a fragile mask which can be torn off easily by a rainstorm or a big fire or a epidemic.

The debris also ignited fires, which continued to burn throughout the afternoon on lower floors of the building.

That, in turn, has led to violations of the sanctity of human life and dignity and contributed to the eruption of wars and lawlessness in many parts of the world.

To hold the opposite view would be tantamount to believing that a fire in our neighbour apos s house cannot reach over the fence into our own.

The hydrogen revolution has started, but with a slow burning fuse. Hydrogen is not the only weapon in the fight against global heating, but it is an essential element in the truest sense of the word.

Moreover, there is an acute risk that the power vacuum created in Iraq will fuse the Israeli Arab conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan into one regional mega crisis.

But Iran has resources that Cambodia and Laos could never muster indeed, its ability to retaliate could set the entire region ablaze.

Reducing flaring of gases was identified as a key measure to reduce emissions from a number of activities, including from oil and coal production (China, Iran, Nigeria and others).

At the same time, in other regions we look with concern on the inflammation of new hotbeds of tension that lead to a weakening of the power of the State as the catalyst among various social sectors.

After a few months during which Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ostensibly sought to improve his country s relations with China, his fifth visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine has again raised tempers.

Today, the United Nations still shoulders the primary responsibility for preventing the ashes of war from rekindling, for maintaining world peace and stability and for promoting human progress and development.

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.

But America's intransigence in this area is sparking protests in countries facing the threat of such an agreement, such as Morocco, and is forming the basis of long lasting resentment.

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.

Some believe that China cannot rise peacefully, and will seek hegemony in East Asia, leading to conflict with the United States and Japan.

To be sure, in all continents regional bodies have already embarked on this course of action in the past year they have contributed, in cooperation with the United Nations, to crucial mediation and peace keeping ventures but always after the conflict had flared up.

But it has long been a flashpoint in battles over expansion of pharmaceutical companies global IP rights, owing to its dynamic generics industry and its willingness to challenge patent provisions both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions.

Bosnia remains a high profile international flashpoint. Despite the warning of dire consequences, the Bosnian Serbs have rejected the final compromise proposal of the five nation Contact Group, which awards them 49 per cent of the country, over two thirds of which they have taken by force.

At the same time, in the process of conducting and completing the relevant investigations, full consideration should be given to the situation in that region, which involves many complex and interlinking elements, so as to avoid any new flare ups of tension or turbulence.

368. The volatility of the situation manifested itself in a particularly grave escalation of hostilities in July 1993 when, in response to rocket attacks against northern Israel, the Israeli Defence Forces launched massive air strikes against southern Lebanon.