powder-keg

Even if it is to investigate a brutal crime in a powder-keg of a small town.

Living Witness by Jane Haddam: Book summary 2010

They were part of a digression in a talk I gave to the 1970 Exeter conference on children’s literature, and if I’d realised then what a powder-keg I was throwing my fag-end of thought into I would have kept my trap shut.

An essay by Peter Dickinson entitled 'A Defense of Rubbish' 2010

"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

One possible explanation: Vogue succeeds in showing a side of Syria that the editors at the Journal don't want, or refuse, to see: "a country that's modernizing itself, that stands for a tolerant secularism in a powder-keg region, with extremists and radicals pushing in from all sides," as a Western ambassador observes in the article.

Syria Responds to Op-Ed on First Lady Asma al-Assad 2011

"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

None of us ever expected that it would be Egypt that would ignite with the fury of a powder-keg the day after we left.

Chris Fenar: Cycling Through Egypt on the Eve of an Uprising Chris Fenar 2011

None of us ever expected that it would be Egypt that would ignite with the fury of a powder-keg the day after we left.

Chris Fenar: Cycling Through Egypt on the Eve of an Uprising Chris Fenar 2011

"We're in a powder-keg situation here," said Eugene R. Fidell, president of the National Institute for Military Justice and a military law professor at Yale University.

U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Murdering Afghans Posed For Dozens Of Photos With Corpses And Body Parts, Records Show AP 2010

His strengths in navigating powder-keg situations have already proved crucial to the mayor, who often sends Mr. Walcott first to lower the tension in racially charged events, such as the 2006 police shooting of Queens groom Sean Bell .

Test for Schools Chief Barbara Martinez 2011