The Koran controversy in the United States has added further fuel to a combustible mix.
Most of Ethiopia's 7m pastoralists are Muslim and the parched lands they roam are particularly combustible.
Third, the prospect of the fighting spreading to other parts of the combustible Caucasus is growing.
Big-power interests seem certain to ensure that regional rivalries will continue to fester in the combustible Caucasus.
The offer is roughly 13 times Massmart's pretax earnings and would place Wal-Mart into a politically combustible region.
The advent of social media has made the situation infinitely more combustible and accelerated the pace of change.
One is that novelists and scientists should perhaps try to avoid combustible topics beyond their areas of expertise.
On top of that, the Chernobyl core, unlike Western designs, was built from combustible material and had no containment.
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After all, most heat comes from combustion of a fuel, and biomass is the only renewable and combustible fuel.
It is access to land that has always been the more combustible issue in this part of the world.
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By August it was clear that the rivalry between the prime minister and his No.2 had reached combustible stage.
When a flat jobs market was added to this mix, it became combustible.
The public health outcry over less nutritious food promises to be very combustible.
A123 has developed a battery that uses a doped lithium nanophosphate electrode (cathode) that eliminates combustible oxygen from the system.
Meanwhile outsiders can help stabilise the broader relationship between India and Pakistan, of which Kashmir is such a combustible part.
But as the England coach talked about staying cool in this combustible sweatbox, a surprising notion had started to crystallize.
The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market.
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So Africa's pyramids, wide at childhood and adolescence, are more promising than, say, barren Italy's (see chart 2), but also more combustible.
That divergence makes for a combustible social cocktail whenever the generations mix.
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After that, it's time for Congress to worry about re-election, and so they won't go anywhere near a combustible issue like this one.
Barack Obama's speech to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference raised the combustible topic of the burning anger among the nation's poor African-Americans.
The notion that a flammable or combustible liquid caused flames to reach higher temperatures had been repeated in court by arson sleuths for decades.
The immediacy of social media platforms, coupled with vulnerable youngsters who are socially inexperienced and not fully developed emotionally, can create a combustible mix.
Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran jostle for influence, and pro- and anti-Assad factions often live adjacent to one another in combustible cities like Tripoli.
Mr. Kerry is expected to face major challenges in selling U.S. assurances to a North Asia that is at its most combustible state in decades.
The clear unequal distribution of wealth and the absence of opportunities is a combustible cocktail that will lead to a risk of total social disorder.
Paradoxically, the government's strict control over the official media combined with underground channels for information of dubious origins can prove to be a combustible mixture.
Of course, American free speech is circumscribed by the threat actual violence from a Muslim world even its biggest apologists implicitly concede is highly combustible.
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If football, race and politics make for a combustible mix in Italy, it is also arguable that the standard of the country's stadia is not helping.
The Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration cited Imperial Sugar nearly six months later for 108 "willful violations" related to combustible dust at the Port Wentworth, Ga.
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