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Firestorm
noun
A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
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She was part of the team that won the Walkley Award for multimedia storytelling in 2013 for Firestorm.
His success in business and profile as Yorkshire chairman will not have prepared him for a firestorm such as this.
He described his client as initially "tickled" by the social media firestorm, but then said he asked his attorney to convey to the public he was safe.
But in 21st-century France, where notions of belonging and identity are so visibly alive with antagonisms, a football manager can easily ignite a media firestorm with a few badly chosen words.
Lennon, more than anybody, knew the size of the firestorm that would have engulfed him had victory not been secured in the Highlands.
People have had a taste of politics conducted by firestorm.
He said he thought any coalition talks would be more prolonged than in 2010, "because there is a greater expectation that a coalition will happen and because the next coalition, unlike in 2010, will not be born in the midst of an economic firestorm.
It provoked a "firestorm" of interest, according to one magazine; it was, said another, a "category 10 hurricane".
But though the UN-sponsored Special Tribunal for Lebanon has yet to convene or to charge anyone for the crimes, the impending trial threatens not only to reignite a firestorm in Lebanon, but also to spread sectarian tensions across the Middle East and to vex relations even more between the region's big adversaries, Iran and the United States.
A sustained bombing campaign would take weeks and set off a firestorm in the Middle East, with Iran counter-attacking Israel through its proxies.
"Every privacy scandal essentially has to take the form of a firestorm," says Dr Soghoian.
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