We saw a bus blow up in front of our eyes.

Let her gush and jabber

Why do we hear over and over again about new scandals erupting in major institutions

Pakistan did not erupt because Pakistan s elite is focused on modernization.

The secondary stage is imploded by x ray energy from the first stage, called the primary.

Conflicts, internal and between neighbours, seem to have burst out everywhere.

They are designed to detonate when subject to 7 kilogrammes or more of continuous pressure.

And so this, again, a real picture of the ice fountains rising up into space, absolutely beautiful.

Hague Convention (VIII) relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines, of 1907 (H.VIII)

There is turmoil almost everywhere as age old nationalisms that have for so long been suppressed explode with a vengeance that knows no limit.

From East to West, from North to South, sizeable and often tragic conflicts keep breaking out.

Even in Western Europe, which boasts the most rehabilitation oriented penal systems, ghastly scandals periodically erupt.

The principal sources of instability in the world are social tensions that regularly erupt before our very eyes in various regions of the world.

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All of these contradictions are currently exploding in Syria, whose population is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, while the world stands by, up to now unwilling to intervene.

In the background to this struggle, the conflict between Catholic and Protestant cantons persisted, erupting in further violence at the Battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712.

In many cases, the removal of land mines and unexploded ordnance is a prerequisite for all other post conflict peace building activities.

Conflicts, primarily the most brutal ones, are ignited in those parts of the world where hunger rages, lawlessness rules and human rights are abused.

The international community cannot stand aside as conflicts which imperil the lives of millions of innocent people and threaten their most fundamental rights, fester, degenerate and eventually explode.

Impossible is trying to connect in this world, trying to hold onto others while things are blowing up around you, knowing that while you're speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk they hear you.

Even though the danger of a global nuclear conflict has been practically eliminated, the quot local quot wars and regional conflicts breaking out all over the world are causing serious concern.

52. A small problem comprising anti vehicle mines (about 1,000) and UXO arose in Liberia, impeding access of relief supplies to areas of need.

And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be geysers, and erupting from pockets or chambers of liquid water underneath the surface, but we weren't really sure.

More immediately, if Gazan families are not well fed, the recurrence of cross border violence, if not the eruption of a third intifada, will only be a matter of time.

During the past year, almost 2,000 trained Afghan mine clearers were employed in the mine clearance programme, clearing unexploded ordnance from access roads, villages, irrigation canals and agricultural land.

And I also reported that we'd made this mind blowing discovery this once in a lifetime discovery of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice crystals accompanied by water vapor and simple organic compounds like carbon dioxide and methane.

Impossible is trying to connect in this world, trying to hold onto others while things are blowing up around you, knowing that while you're speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk they hear you.

While the full blown crisis did not erupt until the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, it was clear by the summer of 2007 that something was very wrong in credit markets, which were starting to behave in all sorts of strange ways.

Internal conflicts within States, while by no means always the result of differences between distinctive communities, often have their origin in such differences, and in particular in the denial to communities of the opportunity for appropriate self expression.

As a matter of fact, we are beginning to witness examples of such behaviour, in the strife between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in the continuing plight of Georgia, in the explosive situation in Tajikistan, and in the continuing civil war in Angola and in many other war stricken areas, hotbeds of tension which may explode at any moment and threaten world peace and security.

If terrorist bombs are no longer going off in the Indian state of Assam, it is thanks to the government in Dhaka. Giving Bangladesh legal rights to territory within its own borders is the least India can do to express its gratitude.

Only real aficionados of arcane moves inside the ruling party could be bothered to follow the ups and downs of factional bosses, many of whom were from established political families, and most of whom relied on shady financing. Corruption scandals erupted from time to time, but these, too, were usually part of intra party maneuvers to rein in politicians who got too big for their britches, or who tried to grab power before their time.

In dealing with our vision of a new Middle East, I am going to deal with each of those underpinnings in a context that has to do with the creation of a new situation which would allow all the creative energies of the region to be unleashed in a climate of security, stability and confidence in the future.

We believe that the creation of a legal basis for the containment of aggressive separatism is imperative and long overdue so that situations, such as the one in Georgia, will not flare up in other parts of the world in future, or if they do, they will be localized and defused in a timely manner.