The top notes in the soundtrack are arid metallic clicks, snips, squeaks and creaks, the chatter of wrenches and wire clippers, as bombs are defused in air so parched as to seem combustible itself.
Mr. Haroun, who used to be a minister in the northern government, is now the governor of the state of Southern Kordofan, just north of Abyei, which is also haunted by various militias and is combustible itself.
As the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health notes, the gas itself is "not combustible but enhances combustion of other substances". In November, the Purchasing Assn. of Private Clubs told its members that Conagra halted production of Reddi-wip.
Only a great writer could compose such an intensely lyrical apocalypsis: Life, chemically transformed inside the earth into combustible matter, rages and consumes itself in a vast, murderous vortex.
But then, once one has made a point, they as it were turn back upon themselves and eat themselves up—as fire first burns combustible materials and then destroys itself.
He also repeatedly emphasized Israel's right to defend itself "in a very dangerous, combustible region of the world".
"Live in Europe 1967" — briskly covering five countries in just over a week's time — captures a band more radically sure of itself, with a freer, more combustible interplay.
If that weren't combustible enough, in a party that pleases itself to pretend it can accommodate basically Ukip-scale xenophobia and stay in Europe anyway for the trade, Clarke also comes out strongly in favour of the European Convention of Human Rights.
The situation presents combustible election-year elements: the delicacy of the administration investigating itself, the unexpected consequences that could come if an independent special counsel were named, and the difficulty of ferreting out leaks to the news media in a town built on the trading of information.
In one case the terminal point is an insurgency and combustible politics threatening the very operations of the oil industry and the petrostate itself; in the other it is the violence of a blowout the loss of human and environmental life and livelihoods and of the deadly consequences of substituting technical and financial over political risks.
The theory explained that air was simply the receptacle for phlogiston, and any combustible or calcinable substance contained phlogiston as a principle or element and thus could not itself be elemental.
