At worst, it created a tinderbox of unnaturally dense vegetation.
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The victims died because they were trapped in a tinderbox.
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Transit lanes can also become something of a local tinderbox.
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Maradona's world became a tinderbox that only true temerity could ignite.
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All this has turned India into a tinderbox ready to ignite.
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This tinderbox has now been exposed to the spark of Taiwanese democracy.
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Metzler regards the current racial climate in the US as a tinderbox.
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One American official described the situation around Manbij as a potential tinderbox.
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The President "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox," Biden said.
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Between the heat and the wind the four state area was a tinderbox.
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The final match to this tinderbox was the proliferation of guns in America.
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Rakhine State was already an ethnic tinderbox before the light infantry divisions arrived.
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If such ferment can explode in Britain, the eurozone looks like a tinderbox.
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Another tinderbox is Syria, where again, Putin's adventurism clashes with American military strategy.
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"That place was a tinderbox," said Danielle Boudreaux, who had visited many times.
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The heat and dry conditions have turned the Australian landscape into a tinderbox.
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The blaze coincided with the first major heatwave of the year, creating tinderbox conditions.
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"That place was a tinderbox," said Danielle Boudreaux, 40, who had visited the warehouse.
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In the past few years the sparks of jihad have been struck in this tinderbox.
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Gray's mysterious death turned the largely black city near the nation's capital into a tinderbox.
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Yet WhatsApp has several features that make it a potential tinderbox for misinformation and misuse.
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Profanity prone in the extreme, LaBorde was known for her tinderbox temper and hostile disposition.
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For days, I have watched as the bushland around us went up like a tinderbox.
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"It's basically just this big tinderbox that when it lights it's hard to stop," Fortin said.
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Loaded with political and religious significance, it's long been a tinderbox just waiting for a match.
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A coffee shop, she was saying, can be a community hub and a tinderbox of creativity.
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"It was a tinderbox waiting for a match," said Nanette Lawrenson, the historical society's executive director.
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This year, there was the perfect storm record-breaking drought and heat coalescing on tinderbox land.
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In short, Chanos — who runs hedge fund Kynikos Associates — thinks China is an over-indebted tinderbox.
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"The Middle East is acting as a tinderbox for conflict," said Stephen Brennock of oil broker PVM.
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But no amount of goodwill can change the fact that politically, Northern Ireland is still a tinderbox.
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The app used artificial intelligence, deep learning technology, and more advanced facial recognition than its Tinderbox predecessor.
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Rakhine State, with its majority Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, has long been an ethnic tinderbox.
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This has turned Australia into a tinderbox, drying out bushland and helping the deadly fires to spread.
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When I say "Tinderbox" should be taught in journalism schools, I mean it as praise and rebuke.
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That the state became such a tinderbox is due in part to ongoing changes in the climate.
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The inciting incident is a family funeral, as if things weren't enough of a tinderbox to start with.
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Tinderbox conditions The dangerous mix of extreme temperatures and bone-dry conditions means firefighters are battling "explosive" conditions.
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Over the past few years, persistent drought conditions have transformed vast swaths of Southern Australia into a tinderbox.
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For decades, the vast central African country has been a tinderbox of conflicts over land, ethnicity and minerals.
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"Bitcoin is kind of a tinderbox right now, waiting for reasons to go higher," said the venture capitalist.
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"Libya's political landscape therefore remains deeply divided and the country continues to be a tinderbox for conflict," Brennock continued.
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And the nuclear project raised additional security concerns about expanding nuclear technology in a tinderbox region of the world.
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Their experience in combat, he suggests, could serve them well if the lid comes off the host city's tinderbox.
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Just one spark Analysts fear the situation is a tinderbox that could be set off by a small spark.
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Then, in two years, we'd have two desperate, starving, nuclear-armed countries, each in tinderbox areas of the world.
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The blaze coincided with a heatwave which pushed temperatures up to 42 degrees centigrade (108 Fahrenheit), creating tinderbox conditions.
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" Former Vice President Joe Biden said that by killing Soleimani, Trump "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.
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The forests are now radically different than 150 years ago—brush and trees growing close together, creating a tinderbox.
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Thanks to a lack of steady rainfall, heavy winds, and extremely dry forests, Greece's "tinderbox conditions" make wildfires almost inevitable.
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Even as global warming extends its droughts, decades of poor forest and land management have made the state a tinderbox.
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And the underlying lack of trust in democratic institutions that makes every election a tinderbox will need to be addressed.
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When a forest has thousands of dead trees just chillin, without having fallen over yet, that forest becomes a tinderbox.
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Deliberate decisions and unintended consequences of urban development over decades have turned many parts of the state into a tinderbox.
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Fire conditions statewide made California "a tinderbox," said Jonathan Cox, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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A tinderbox For people who track daily life in Tibet, demonstrations of dissent are just a spark away from being reignited.
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The big picture: Record dry vegetation plus a hotter than average summer is turning the state's vast forests into a tinderbox.
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LONDON — European officials are concerned the Trump administration's hands-off approach to diplomacy could risk destabilizing a tinderbox region in Southeast Europe.
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And-- and any sane person realizes it, but you don't want to -- you don't want to get too close to that tinderbox.
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The enormous number of users on the platform and the richness of data collected about them mean Facebook is still a tinderbox.
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This means that southwestern Syria has very real potential to become a tinderbox through one false move by one of the players.
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That's what's striking about the Southern California fires right now: High winds and bone-dry conditions have made the area a tinderbox.
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"It's dry as a tinderbox up there," said Brenda Warrington, leader of Tameside Council at a news briefing in the early afternoon.
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In California's dried-out forests, at least 129 million trees have died, many killed by bark beetles, creating a tinderbox of dead timber.
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Summer lightning storms then dumped less rain than usual and weather conditions kept the humidity low, creating a natural tinderbox in many states.
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Pornography by The Cure and Tinderbox by Siouxsie and the Banshees, between those two records it was just so musically influential for me.
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Rights activists objected: The state, they said, was using the tinderbox issue of blasphemy as a means of quashing all sorts of dissent.
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How can we protect people like Bill in a place many have referred to as a "tinderbox" for a virus like COVID-19?
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That was also the last time the United Nations Security Council officially listed the tinderbox known as Kashmir as a topic of discussion.
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This is also why NATO's expansion to include Montenegro is a bad strategy and ignores the historical role of the Balkans as a tinderbox.
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Congo's mineral-rich eastern borderlands, a tinderbox of ethnic tensions, has for more than two decades been the theater of successive wars and rebellions.
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There have been some recent comparisons in the press between the state of our culture and politics this year and the tinderbox of 1968.
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But they face serious security challenges in eastern Congo, a tinderbox of conflicts over land and ethnicity stoked by decades of on-off war.
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California in particular is such a tinderbox that something as seemingly innocuous as hammering a stake into the ground can unleash an uncontrollable inferno.
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Congo is a tinderbox of ethnic tensions and political frustration at its extreme poverty despite its huge mineral wealth, especially in the lawless east.
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"President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox," said former Vice President Joe Biden, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
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More than a decade after a 1996-2003 war that killed millions, the mineral-rich country remains a tinderbox of armed groups and ethnic militias.
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But a particularly dry year, which experts are now suspecting could have been brought on by climate change, has turned many regions into a tinderbox.
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This has created a tinderbox in Greece—last week Macedonian police tear-gassed migrants who tried to storm the border—but breathing space for politicians.
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The idea that Turkey is encouraging a war in the South Caucasus, long a tinderbox for Russia, is unlikely to sit well with the Kremlin.
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MOSCOW — Heavy fighting broke out Saturday in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian separatist enclave in Azerbaijan and a longtime ethnic tinderbox in the South Caucasus region.
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This mismatch between what the science can do and how poorly people understand and are prepared for it is creating an extremely dangerous public tinderbox.
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Northern Ireland is a beautiful place, but it also a tinderbox, and to ignore the bloody history of the Irish border is to court disaster.
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But press relations in the Trump White House have taken on a tinderbox dynamic, with journalists and press aides highly suspicious of each other's motives.
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He was recently kicked out of his home, separated from his family and unable to make child support, and Sam is afraid he's a walking tinderbox.
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Within three weeks he had developed a working prototype, called Tinderbox, which used simple facial recognition software to find a match and craft an introductory message.
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Right now, hot, dry and windy conditions are combining to turn the West into a tinderbox, particularly in California, New Mexico, Arizona and parts of Colorado.
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The vital waterway, through which one fifth of the world's oil passes daily, has become a tinderbox where one wrong move might trigger a regional war.
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So, you had this making for a bit of a tinderbox on a particular privacy issue that was different from what we'd seen in the past.
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Tinderbox With little changed except the number of boats on the sea, Smith warns the crisis could flare up again as soon as the current monsoon fades.
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Donald Trump's latest foray into the tinderbox that is Middle Eastern geopolitics has again stirred up tensions in a region facing its greatest diplomatic crisis in decades.
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Kirkuk: the referendum's tinderbox Kirkuk has emerged as a flashpoint in Iraqi Kurdistan's standoff with Baghdad for the same reasons ISIS fought so hard to capture it.
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The violence in Kasai has stoked fears of a wider conflict in the central African giant, a tinderbox of ethnic rivalry and competing claims over mineral resources.
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Eastern Congo is a tinderbox of conflicts over land and ethnicity stoked by decades of on-off war and this could hamper efforts to contain the virus.
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With Iranian attacks on Saudi oil production, civil war in Yemen, oil tanker attacks, the region is more of a tinderbox that it has been in many years.
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Given that the state is becoming a giant tinderbox and houses are invading wilderness everywhere, it's just impossible to string power lines to everyone without starting some fires.
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Without a drastic intervention, the U.S. is set for a lot more California-scale disasters — or, where conditions are not as tinderbox-like for massive outages, says Lynch.
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With his taunting of protesters and his racist rhetoric, he has thrown matches into the tinderbox of a divided nation, igniting the violence we've seen at his rallies.
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The Whittier Fire is among more than 50 large, active wildfires burning across the U.S. West as forecasters warned that hot, dry conditions could persist, creating tinderbox conditions.
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There is no question that Rakhine State, one of the poorest in Myanmar, is a complex tinderbox of sectarian resentments that requires the most cautious of political approaches.
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It has killed trees and dried turf which would normally be too damp to burn, creating what Martin Rice of the Climate Council, an NGO, calls "tinderbox conditions".
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These hot, dry conditions are consistent with models of climate change, and they are turning California's already fire-prone landscape into a tinderbox waiting to burst into flame.
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"President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox, and he owes the American people an explanation," former Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement.
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"President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox," former Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement released hours after reports of the strike broke.
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"It is a tinderbox of conflict between airports and the residents that surround them," said Henry Harteveldt, the founder of Atmosphere Research Group, a travel-industry advisory firm.
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"Well, I would love to see Pakistan and India get along, because that's a very, very hot tinderbox," he told the Hindustan Times in an exclusive interview last month.
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For an adolescent boy, the neighborhood was a tinderbox of social pressures, street politics, and the directionless anger that blooms from the daily struggle of poverty and institutional oppression.
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More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from that fire alone, while the lingering effects of a long drought and high winds have turned the region into a tinderbox.
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Several national forests throughout the West have been forced to close due to dry tinderbox conditions, impacting recreation- and tourism-related businesses that depend on access to public lands.
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A decade after the end of a 1996-2003 regional war in Congo that killed millions, the mineral-rich country remains a tinderbox of armed groups and ethnic militias.
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And since most people are under thirty, cut off from the world at large, and in the best shape of their lives, the whole thing is a hormonal tinderbox.
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The area has strong literary connections: it's where Hans Christian Anderson lived and wrong some of his most famous works including 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Tinderbox'.
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Other than a gas station across the street, the only nearby business was the Ear Inn, a dimly lit tinderbox of a bar that recently celebrated its 200th birthday.
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The California fires stretch the definition of "natural disaster" because deliberate decisions and unintended consequences of urban development over decades have turned many parts of the state into a tinderbox.
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Congo's mineral-rich eastern borderlands are a tinderbox of ethnic tensions and for more than two decades have been racked by violence that has often spilled across the country's borders.
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Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and a tinderbox mix of different tribes and ethnicities, ranging from the Luo to the predominantly Muslim Nubians who were the original settlers.
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Separately, Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying that the United States is selling more arms into the Middle East than the region needs, making it a "tinderbox".
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North Korea's claim Wednesday to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb ignited "another tinderbox in the world besides the Middle East, " said former ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson.
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In short, what we have now is a regional tinderbox ready to be lit by a small spark that could lead to an exchange of fire and subsequently another war.
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But they also say that no amount of preventive burning will offset the impact of rising temperatures that accelerate evaporation, dry out land and make already-arid Australia a tinderbox.
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"All the professors were smoking, and all the students were smoking, and there was this joke that it was a bit of a tinderbox and yet it survived," he said.
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China's press has warned that America risks turning the region into a "tinderbox of conflicts", yet its diplomats, not normally slow to accuse America of stoking tensions, played down the decision.
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A tinderbox dynamic played out through all their lives — Jessica, eloping with the radical Communist firebrand Romilly because Unity was a Nazi, Unity becoming a Nazi because Diana was a fascist.
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"Abnormally high temperatures for two consecutive years and low precipitation have made Uttarakhand's forest moisture deficient, thereby turning it into a tinderbox," said B.P. Gupta, a forest fire officer in Uttarakhand.
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She reminisced about the past, breaking conversation to curtly steer her driver through impossibly thick traffic and to remind a reporter that the area was the perfect tinderbox for communal riots.
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The most oft-cited parallel is 1968 — a tinderbox of tragedy, protest and political upheaval — though the composition of the news industry then precluded the minute-to-minute ubiquity of 2017.
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The bloodshed in Paris added fuel to a tinderbox of political instability that shook the foundation of the European Union, sparking ominous predictions that the global economy could collapse all over again.
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"I have to respectfully disagree with Secretary Zinke and say that a multitude of factors contribute to the tinderbox conditions in California and across the West," Mr. Barnwell wrote in an email.
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On March 19, two medical experts for the Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to the House and Senate Committee on Homeland Security warning of a "tinderbox scenario" in detention facilities.
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South Korean officials, in a shift from the previous conservative government, have called for increased negotiations with the North as a way of defusing the escalating tensions on the tinderbox Korean Peninsula.
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The president showed resolve in the face of Pyongyang's defiance, as his aides had counseled, while increasing pressure on China to broker some kind of deal to denuclearize the tinderbox Korean Peninsula.
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Kidnapping of locals and Westerners for ransom has been on the rise in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a tinderbox of rebel groups and militias left over from a 1998-2003 war.
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One of the blazes was thought to have been started by a bolt of lightning, but carelessly discarded cigarette butts are often blamed for setting tinderbox areas of the midsummer southern coast alight.
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The security situation in the east, already a tinderbox of ethnic tensions, has worsened this year as state authority slips, forcing tens of thousands to flee and threatening to destabilize the whole country.
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Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, who took office in January, is trying to restore stability to the country's eastern borderlands, a tinderbox of conflict among armed groups over ethnicity, natural resources and political power.
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Its economy is a tinderbox, thanks to Western economic sanctions, poor planning, and oligarchs who are more inclined to fill their own pockets than turn Russia into the economic powerhouse it should be.
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More than a decade after the end of a 1996-2003 regional war in Congo that killed millions of people, the mineral-rich country remains a tinderbox of armed groups and ethnic militias.
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A win in Assam, a tinderbox of ethnic and religious animosities, would testify to the continuing appeal of the BJP, the ruling party at the centre, in results that are due on Thursday.
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That is creating the potential for violence in tinderbox regions like West Bengal, a Hindu-majority state with a substantial Muslim population, where the B.J.P. has stoked fears of Muslim "infiltrators" from Bangladesh.
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It's these kinds of racist operations that likely fueled local resentment toward the police department, making Ferguson a tinderbox for protests and riots — one that ignited when news of the Brown shooting spread.
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The severity of Australia's wildfires has inspired millions in donations, but these dollars aren't able to directly relieve the impacts of climate change — which created the harsh tinderbox conditions that worsened the fires.
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" State Senator Scott Wiener called Patriot Prayer an "extremist group," insisting that it was "not interested in simply exercising free speech" with its event, but rather in creating "a volatile, chaotic, violent tinderbox.
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This executive order would be a political tinderbox that could explode in the faces of Republicans everywhere, reinforcing negative stereotypes about the party's dislike of L.G.B.T. Americans, women, and religious and ethnic minorities.
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There were standoffs at police barricades in half a dozen towns in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, which has long been a tinderbox of communal tensions between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
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As more people settle at the edge of wildlands, as invasive species transform ecosystems, and as climate change promotes more exceptionally hot days, mild winters, and dry summers, our planet is becoming a tinderbox.
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The Taiwan Strait has been a tinderbox at times over the past half-century, but the last eight years saw a period of détente, as Mr. Ma promoted deepening ties between the two sides.
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"It really is a tinderbox waiting for the fire to rip through there," Hardin Lang, a veteran of UN peacekeeping operations, and now vice president for programs and policy at Refugees International, told me.
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For the Uighurs and the Hong Kong protesters, and for the Rohingya before them, this sort of lax policy is the stuff of nightmares, because it can help turn their country into a tinderbox.
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A rundown housing project that's home to more than 30 nationalities, the neighborhood is a volatile tinderbox of factions and competing tribes, its tenuous peace held together by shaky alliances born of uneasy proximity.
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden said that by boasting about the attack, President Trump has "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" that could lead to a devastating new conflict in the Middle East.
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You don't have to be Elon Musk to tell that singularity is steadily approaching and a nonstick pan could very well be the singular piece of technology to set off this tinderbox we call humanity.
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"The Persian Gulf is like a tinderbox and explosion of a firecracker can lead to a huge disaster," the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Guards commander Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan as saying on Sunday.
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The Trump administration should also stop forcing tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to live in crowded camps across the border in Mexico, she told Business Insider, and release immigrants currently held in "tinderbox" conditions.
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As with much of the region, Chad's dry and difficult climate is a tinderbox for tensions between farmers and herders, each in need of rapidly shrinking amounts of land and water relative to an exploding population.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Crews battled dozens of wildfires raging across California on Wednesday, gaining ground on several of the more destructive blazes as forecasters warned that hot, dry, tinderbox conditions would persist across the U.S. West.
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Kinshasa has been fighting insurgents in the Kasai region since August and there are fears of a wider conflict in the vast central African country, a tinderbox of ethnic rivalry and competing claims over mineral resources.
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Congo's government has been fighting insurgents in Kasai since last August, triggering fears of a wider conflict in the large central African country, which is a tinderbox of ethnic rivalry and competing claims over mineral resources.
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Yes, technology, like fire, can be used for both good and bad; but we are rightfully far more cautious about fire in tinderbox conditions than during the rainy season, and we adjust our risk assessment accordingly.
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Here are the key ways I see tax reform affecting health care: How are these tax reforms managing to touch off the tinderbox of massive insurance reform, even when bureaucrats proved unable to undo the ACA?
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While national rates of measles vaccination of kindergartners are around 95 percent, there are geographic locations in which the number falls far below the needed threshold creating a tinderbox of vulnerable children for measles to prey upon.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the United States is selling arms into the Middle East which were beyond the region's needs, turning it into a "tinderbox", state news agency IRNA reported.
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"It is a policy of dehumanization implemented by this executive administration laid at the feet of [Trump administration senior policy adviser] Stephen Miller that creates a tinderbox of violence and dehumanization where hurt people hurt people," she said.
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In "Tinderbox," Robert W. Fieseler tries to align the fire with other bloody moments in civil rights history — the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the 1963 firebombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the 1969 Stonewall Inn Rebellion.
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California, which for weeks battled massive fires as dry weather turned much of the state into a tinderbox, will see 5003 to 4 inches of rain across the state as a winter storm descends on the West Coast.
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"California to me feels like it's just becoming a flourishing tinderbox," Troy said at a Red Cross shelter at a college in Santa Barbara, a wealthy city a couple hour's drive up the Pacific coast from Los Angeles.
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However, in an interview with the Hindustan Times just before addressing the crowd of Indian-Americans, Trump said he'd be willing to play a mediating role in addressing the "very, very hot tinderbox" of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
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In a world where fashion increasingly doubles as a form of political statement or protest and the first lady's jacket choice is a partisan tinderbox, it's no surprise that a possible new example of fashion-based progressive idealism is making headlines.
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He quit his job at a software marketing company and took a crash-course in deep learning AI. By 1003, he launched Bernie AI to the public, an improved version of Tinderbox named after a friend who died in 2009.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — In the months and years before Brazil's National Museum was consumed by fire on Sunday, federal prosecutors, researchers and even the museum's own administration warned that neglect had turned the 200-year-old institution into a tinderbox.
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It amounted to a political tinderbox for a rookie mayor whom few had expected to win in 2013, when Mr. de Blasio vaulted past a crowded field in a crazy race marked by Anthony Weiner's implosion and Christine Quinn's collapse.
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The blaze at Grenfell Tower, a 23-storey social housing block owned by one of London's richest local authorities, shocked Britain and threw up a range of disturbing questions about how the building had been allowed to become a tinderbox.
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Mr. Mueller happens to know a lot of the faces he'll encounter on Wednesday — he won't be happy to see Representatives Jim Jordan and Louie Gohmert again — but he simply doesn't have experience weathering the political tinderbox of Trump's Washington.
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Yet they live in a tinderbox America, ready to flame, and as their faces begin to appear on the news as the subjects of a nationwide manhunt, they become the symbol of something much different than other Bonnies and Clydes.
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The Saudis had just executed a Shiite cleric, and angry Iranians had stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran in response, a tinderbox moment that Mr. Xi ignored by sticking to his mission, which was all about building business, and staying above the fray.
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"The reaction to the fire itself had everything to do with anti-gay animus or at least anti-gay discomfort," said Robert W. Fieseler, author of "Tinderbox: the Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation" (2018).
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Biden says US strike 'dynamite in a tinderbox' In the US, the news of Soleimani's killing generated starkly different reactions along party lines, with Republicans heaping praise on Trump and Democrats expressing concerns about the timing, legality and consequences of the strike.
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"Given the context of high valuations, in typically a very, very tough time for stocks, when we have volatility really starting to spike in the fall — all of those things just create a tinderbox for a potential storm for investors," Schlossberg said.
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We're a "tinderbox waiting to go up," Ms. Magick Dennis, 40, said as she waited on her porch for a water truck to reach the village, a dusty strip of homes in a region of fewer than 200 residents a four-hour drive from Sydney.
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THE WORLD IS A TINDERBOX: -- "Trump served a bellicose brew of threats, rebukes and contempt on Sunday as he escalated tensions in the Middle East and awaited Iran's possible retaliation for the U.S. killing of one of its top generals," Seung Min Kim and Philip Rucker report.
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And yet in that volatile tinderbox of a time, President Kennedy led with a steady hand, diffusing the most perilous moment of the cold war without firing a single shot and forcing the rights of young black men and women to study at the university of their choice.
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Indeed, I can see a way that the President's ego, combined with his penchant for ignoring his advisers, could advance a diplomatic solution to the tinderbox straddling both sides of the 38th Parallel even while they drive the last nail in the coffin of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Track severe weather across the country Mudslide threat in California California, which for weeks battled massive fires as dry weather turned much of the state into a tinderbox, will see 2 to 4 inches of rain across the state as a winter storm descends on the West Coast.
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JW: I am also thinking a lot about toxic masculinity, and there have been a lot of comments made by various people including our president about transgendered bodies and transgendered people, and already we're in this mode of what feels like a tinderbox of violence just waiting to happen.
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In 2011, his plain talk about justice and the despair of jobless young citizens made him an instant political star in South Korea, where grievances over a government that served the privileged rather than the common good created a political tinderbox that would eventually explode in Ms. Park's impeachment.
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The Charleston Post-Gazette described a tinderbox of frustration at a public hearing in Charleston last November and a sense -- as teachers and their local union leaders railed against low wages and cuts to the Public Employees Insurance Agency -- that extraordinary measures would be required to reroute the debate.
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Writing a full year ago, the New Statesman's Kevin Meagher warned that Brexit, which was massively disfavored by Northern Irish voters, was a political tinderbox waiting to ignite in Northern Ireland, because it could bring calls for Northern Irish reunification with its southern (and European) neighbor back into the spotlight.
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Surging militia violence in the east, which has for decades been a tinderbox of ethnic rivalries fuelled by the region's mineral wealth, and in the formerly peaceful central Kasai region, have raised fears the country could slip back to the multi-faceted civil wars of the turn of the century.
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The question of who in this tinderbox of a society is valued for their anti-authoritarian moxie and who for their obeisance is difficult, and charged, but it is one that the founder of a chain of 46 schools, which educate mostly poor children of color, might be expected to consider.
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"President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox, and he owes the American people an explanation of the strategy and plan to keep safe our troops and embassy personnel, our people and our interests, both here at home and abroad, and our partners throughout the region and beyond," Biden tweeted. Sen.
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But during a conference call beforehand that focused on North Korea, Mr. Trump did not offer a preview of what he planned to say — and aides did not press the president, who resists being told what to say, even on a tinderbox issue that has induced his predecessors to seek the safety of a script.
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"Italian banks are set to be thrown under the spotlight on July 29th by the ECB, with many regional players, led by Monte dei Paschi, expected to be exposed as structurally weak and sitting on a tinderbox of unproductive non-performing loans (NPL)," Steve Hussey, Head of Financial Institutions Credit Research at AllianceBernstein told CNBC via email.
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However, heat and drought is where climate change comes in, and it's not a trivial contributor to the tinderbox-like conditions in California and other Western states, particularly this summer: July was the hottest month on record in California, and, according to NOAA data, California's spring and summer temperatures have warmed by 5.4°F since 1980.
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The geography of the Baltics make it enormously insecure for both Russia and for NATO, and this is why nearly every expert I spoke to warned that it is a potential tinderbox, where some unforeseen accident, miscalculation, or provocation could, in an unlikely but real worst-case scenario, send both sides careening into a conflict that neither wants.
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Mr. Boutros-Ghali's frustration over the Clinton administration's pattern of voting for tough Security Council resolutions, and then refusing to support the actions on the ground, had its paradigm in the civil war that raged from 21991 to 21997 in the former Yugoslavia, a conflict precipitated by the secession of Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia and fueled by a tinderbox of ethnic, religious and regional differences.
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That Trump appeared to be running with an eye on the general election, as he framed himself as a level-headed unifier of a party that he's working to expand Of course, the tension between himself and Fox News, as well as the onslaught of insults that will be thrown at him by his desperate rivals, could be enough to light the fuse on the Trump tinderbox.
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" Gibson said the news conference at Alamo Square Park would question the rhetoric in the city in the buildup to this weekend, including comments by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in San Francisco, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee: 'Volatile, chaotic tinderbox' Mayor Lee earlier said that "people with hate-filled messages" planned on coming to his city for the Crissy Field rally, while Pelosi described it as a "white supremacist rally in the middle of a park for families and children.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently leading the 2020 Democratic field and is one of the only candidates in the field to have cast a vote on the Iraq War (and the only one to vote for it), warned in a statement that President Trump "just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" and owes the American people an explanation of his strategy to keep American troops, embassy personnel, and American interests in the US and abroad safe, as well as US allies.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe Biden Former Bush official blasts Buttigieg: 'He is not ready' Ex-Trump campaign adviser: Biden would be able to 'sit down and get some things done' with Republicans Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers say Facebook deepfake ban falls short | House passes bills to win 5G race | Feds sound alarm on cyberthreat from Iran | Ivanka Trump appearance at tech show sparks backlash MORE, who is running for president, warned in a statement released late Tuesday evening that Trump had "just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" and now needs to explain his "strategy and plan to keep safe our troops and embassy personnel" as well as U.S. interests at home and abroad.
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