History implies that high unemployment is not just an economic problem but also a political tinderbox.

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Because official policy thwarted this natural process of renewal for many decades, Yellowstone became a tinderbox.

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The ongoing battle in Syria between the government and rebels is a reminder that the region remains a tinderbox.

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Lebanon remains a tinderbox of sectarian rivalries, making regime change a complex business.

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There is a small fire burning among a tinderbox of surrounding sun-weary trees, presumably built by a ranger in the predawn cold.

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This is why almost any new idea is automatically a political tinderbox.

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Another factor that makes the garment sector a tinderbox is its location or rather, the lack of an industrial zone for garment manufacture.

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However, some hill farmers and crofters believe the failure of large estates to muir burn every year that has left areas of the land like a "tinderbox".

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"Other countries, once they see Iran getting nuclear weapons, will rush to get their own nuclear weapons and then the Middle East will become a tinderbox, " he said.

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Gujarat has been a potential tinderbox since the earlier riots.

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All of the conflicts in this tinderbox, which controls shipping lanes from the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea, can potentially give rise to regional, and indeed global conflagrations between competing regional actors and global powers.

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