In the conflagration of October-to-January, it emerged that few were ready to stand and fight.
The conflagration was no accident, but the consequence of a strategic decision the previous month in London.
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Lying near the bottom of the canvas, amid the conflagration, the bones suggest that this is a sacrificial pyre.
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The conflagration burned for three days, killing hundreds and destroying an area covering nearly four square miles, including over 18, 000 buildings.
Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi said cadaver dogs were called to the scene because of the size of the conflagration.
The conflagration spanned 1, 000 acres in a remote section of South Jersey in the townships of Tabernacle and Woodlawn, about 80 miles south of Manhattan.
The board's technical experts are in possession of the battery that caught fire and are effectively performing an autopsy on its charred insides in a search for clues to what caused the conflagration.
When it was established in 1993, the tribunal was widely seen as a fig-leaf to hide the pusillanimity of the western powers, who did not want to intervene in the conflagration devouring the Balkans.
Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi said late Tuesday the search with trained dogs was standard given the size of the conflagration and the fact that there was no immediate, reliable count of people who were inside the intimate, one-story restaurant at the time.
Amidst the many dangers posed by the political conflagration now engulfing the Arab world, we are presented with a unique opportunity in Syria.
What they perhaps did not expect was the resulting conflagration.
The region's conflagration was made worse by the tinder of speculative capital that preceded the explosion.
By contrast, for over six decades, the world has been spared another global conflagration because the United States military has been both formidable and forward-deployed.
Dr. Kennett's argument is that a swarm of meteorites punched through the atmosphere and caused a vast conflagration, filling the air with dust and soot.
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Whether a more meritocratic elite can emerge out of the ashes of Fiji's conflagration to bring the country back to a constitutional democracy remains to be seen.
The White House will release its FY2012 budget next month, but the first real conflagration over spending will come in March, when Republicans try to force spending cuts in exchange for agreeing to raise the national debt limit.
The sci-fi script, billed as a "cosmic conflagration" for the benefit of the Hollywood trade press, gets a reading by actors in full regalia at a Beverly Hills hotel during a set piece that's staged with a delightfully straight face.
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Upwards of 40 million people subsequently lost their lives in the horrific, global conflagration that ensued.
Ironically, under present and foreseeable circumstances, those who seek to "ban the bomb" would likely clear the way for the next terrible global conflagration.
These individuals face the prospect of sparking a legal conflagration that spreads to consume them, while denying them the payoff they sought in the first place.
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In 1988, the accumulated debris and dead wood of decades was consumed in a catastrophic conflagration that covered half the park.
"When we reinforced and returned to the scene the terrorists came out with heavy firepower, including (rocket-propelled grenades), which usually has a conflagration effect, " the general said.
And it is also a fact that overthrowing the regime in North Korea is the easiest, safest, fastest, and most humane way to prevent the likes of Kim Jong Il from provoking and proliferating the world into a nuclear conflagration.
With Angola's war looking to start again, conflict bubbling in Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, and with Tutsis and Hutus still at each other's throats, there could be a conflagration that would engulf the whole of Central Africa.
Of course neither a conflagration nor an end to the regime may be round the corner.
Here Syria's unfolding drama could easily provide the touch-paper for a wider conflagration.
For all the talk about Syria, Iran, and intensified conflict in the Middle East, none of those represent the situation with the highest potential for an international military conflagration.
Still, a major eruption on the Lebanese front has the potential to ignite a region-wide conflagration.
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