"Monsignor Lynn put a powder keg out there, " Blessington said while the jurors were out of the courtroom.
All this powder keg needed was the inevitable match, and thanks to electronic globalization it hardly mattered where it was struck.
This carries the risk of considerable casualties and the danger of further destabilising a region which is already a powder keg.
"You just feel it's a powder keg in Quartzsite, and something is going to set it off, " said Shelly Baker, recorder for La Paz County.
For the survivors, further social disruptions and the loss of jobs as stockmen (or cowboys) made for a powder keg waiting to explode in the 1990s.
If you were to design a factional powder keg in central Iraq, it would look like Dura, a village within Baghdad with a Sunni majority and a large Shiite minority.
And who are told by heavy-set, authoritative men and women that this is a powder keg only prevented from going off by the sheer weight of their boots.
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While we may not know what set off this powder keg, his writing gives the impression that he feels he has nothing personally to lose, so he might as well try to fix things by any means necessary.
As tension between the US and EU and Iran heats up, as a tenuous peace dialogue plods along in the Middle East, and as the withdrawal from Iraq continues, a state stuck in between these conflicts with unclear alliances can be a powder keg, unless Brussels changes its mind.
The diplomatic powder-keg was not all that exploded in July 1914.
But as long as those living in and around the region watch its conflicts from starkly opposing viewpoints, the old powder-keg will retain every speck of its explosive power.
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