Sentence examples for a conflagration on from inspiring English sources

One can't help but wonder if Israel's acquiescence regarding the resolution will lead to a conflagration on a Syrian border that has been relatively calm during the years of the "security zone" in southern Lebanon.

That is helped by anger at the arrest of three opposition leaders and a student activist under a sedition law the government had promised to repeal, and by raids on opposition newspapers.No opposition leader wants the torch to light a conflagration on the streets in the hope of toppling the government in a Malaysian spring.

I don't think that it is for me to dwell much on the Dome, a conflagration of public money on a truly epic scale.

In the midst of the craziness, conservatives are busy trying to blame this epic economic catastrophe — a conflagration of their own making — on the new president.

To his enemies, whatever colour or creed, he was a religious fanatic, a terrorist with the blood of thousands on his hands, a man who had brought war and suffering to a broad swath of the Islamic world and come close to provoking a global conflagration on a scale not seen for decades.

If Northeast Asia flares up in conflict, it will be a global conflagration on a different scale from the events in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

On the campaign trail, he never met a conflict he couldn't turn into a conflagration, including one particularly ugly spat with the parents of a KIA Muslim soldier.

And besides the ever-present threat of a terrible conflagration on the Korean peninsular itself, North Korea's development of long-range missiles, and its sales of the technology to American bugbears such as Iran and Syria, have made it a serious global concern to strategists in Washington.But both America and South Korea have cause to worry about the other's policy.

IN the final minutes of the movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," with a nuclear conflagration on the horizon, the only person in the Pentagon's war room who remains upbeat about the prospect of mass annihilation is Strangelove himself.

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, self-described as "the special one," is setting fire to Spanish soccer with dangerous fireworks that some fear may spark a bigger conflagration on the parched tinder of that fractured entity called Spain.

The fire known as Erskine, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles, smoldered over a wide area on Sunday after melting steel and reducing homes to ash in an intense conflagration on Thursday and Friday.