There's a possibility of war.

Inevitably, there were eruptions of social unrest.

There's a possibility of war.

As Rudi Dornbusch, the late MIT economics professor, once warned, a crisis takes longer than expected to arrive but moves faster than anticipated when it does.

Heat from within made geysers erupt that is how the oceans were born.

It is in the oil rich border areas that a new war might erupt.

Naturally, when the war breaks out, we're gonna jump a couple of these gentlemen and borrow their guns.

But before he can finish his sentence a riot erupts across the TV set.

But the war did come.

This leaves them fighting the fires that break out, rather than managing the settings that sustain those fires.

In such countries, there may be New Deals, but no revolutions.

In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.

But it is also possible that Tunisia is experiencing the Arab world s first ever bourgeois revolution.

Wars in the Middle East, it should be recalled, have started even when the parties did not really want them.

During and after the election campaign, many Iraqi commentators raised the issue of Kirkuk as a potential flashpoint.

We are aware that at present some 70 areas of conflict or potential conflict exist throughout the world.

When a war erupts, as in Darfur, most policymakers look for a political explanation and a political solution.

It also shows that, when a crisis erupts, there is no substitute for effective deterrence and defense.

Unless something very wrong happens, a new cold war is not about to start.

In that case, we would have to make do with organizing a truce until the next crisis.

On the contrary, should the negotiations fail, the confrontation will resurface in short order, and be far more dangerous.

Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails.

This did not stop the violence there, which has broken into war between India and Pakistan from time to time since.

Many began to wonder whether Hollande was aware of the scope of the crisis that the recent downturn might trigger.

TOKYO Revolutions, it is often claimed, do not happen when people are desperate. They occur in times of rising expectations.

There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet.

She is then shown in the empty club, scenes of war breaking out flash by, and the lone soldier appears again.

The political stagnation there is fraught with the danger that hostilities might flare up again as the result of yet another armed incident.

We need them in any area where violence has taken place and where violence may erupt.

Before the crisis struck in 1998 he put in place measures giving him room to manipulate liquidity and interest rates.

Governments want the ability to decide how best to protect their countries perceived national interests when a crisis strikes.

Hundreds of eyes beholding me, awaiting my signal to turn it into a protest, but they respect my grief and my decision.

Instead of a democratic transformation, were the US to withdraw now, the Middle East would face a war of all against all for regional hegemony.

BRUSSELS A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of assets in the financial system suddenly appears to be risky and investors want to get rid of their holdings.

Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, the Secretary General of the United Nations, has rightly pointed out that the most desirable and efficient use of diplomacy is to ease tensions before they result in conflict.

In this respect, we have witnessed in various parts of the world the proliferation of internal conflicts, which have more often than not erupted within multiethnic or multidenominational societies.

They should. There are likely to be many more financial fires in various locations, and the world needs a fire brigade to put them out.

These moves have led to a touch and go situation today in which a nuclear war might break out at any moment on the Korean peninsula.

And, as is often the case, a crisis in one country may go global, with many other countries radically scaling back off shore and out of bounds projects.

Interethnic violence which many feared has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.

That dictum, of course, should apply to everyone. But tensions will inevitably arise if China has no say in the creation of these rules.

Georgia was the first post Soviet country to stage a color revolution, and thus to demonstrate, with dignity and maturity, its people s choice for democracy and European values.

Despite those measures, the town of Hebron, with 110,000 Palestinian inhabitants, remained tense throughout the rest of the period under review, with clashes erupting between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers and or settlers.

After this explanation his sister would break out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would lift himself up to her armpit and kiss her throat, which she, from the time she started going to work, had left exposed without a band or a collar.

In a charged and uncertain political climate, in which new crises erupt on a daily basis, it is unsurprising that economic reform has been postponed repeatedly.