Sentence examples for a tinderbox situation from inspiring English sources

Demands for further tax increases, wage and pension cuts – reforms Athens says it is under immense pressure to apply by the International Monetary Fund if it is to come anywhere close to achieving a projected primary budget surplus of 3.5% by 2018 – have created a tinderbox situation.

For Tsoukalas, the tinderbox situation has produced a number of "phantoms", the side-effects of despair, that have not gone away.

The tinderbox situation in Afghanistan threatened to ignite yesterday as fresh violence hit the country, and it emerged that a former policeman suspected of killing two US Nato officers in Kabul's interior ministry on Saturday spent two months at a religious school in neighbouring Pakistan before the attack.

"The situation is a tinderbox, and anything could ignite it at any moment," said Ali Salman, the general secretary of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's largest legal opposition group.

I recall thinking the situation was a tinderbox waiting for a match.

"The situation is still a tinderbox.

"The situation now is like a tinderbox," said Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian minister of international planning and cooperation.

US envoy warns of Korea tinderbox Jump to media player An unofficial US envoy visiting North Korea has warned that the situation on the peninsula is a "tinderbox".

Not a place we ever thought of as a tinderbox, especially not in late November.

The American West is a tinderbox right now".

Nine years later the Caucasus still feels like a tinderbox.