Sentence examples for combustible year from inspiring English sources

At turns defiant or preoccupied, he brushed aside the combustible year.

In a less combustible year, opposition to either could have doomed the effort.

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.

If government agencies eventually grant approval to all three export terminals proposed for Oregon and Washington, up to 100 million metric tons of the combustible rock per year could soon pass through the Pacific Northwest.

It all sets the stage for a combustible coming election year, in which questions about the viability of single payer will be posed to gubernatorial candidates, incumbent lawmakers and new entrants to politics galvanized by the healthcare debate.

And the basic ingredients that proved combustible a few years ago, for the most part, have remained.

The racial makeup of the schools has been a combustible issue for years — 5 percent of the students accepted this month into the elite schools were black, and 7 percent were Hispanic.

SEOUL — Soccer and politics are never far apart in Iran, but the mix is at its most combustible every four years in June when the country's presidential elections take place at the same time that the beloved national team either qualifies for the World Cup or falls short, sometimes in heartbreaking fashion.

SPORTS Soccer and politics are never far apart in Iran, but the mix is at its most combustible every four years in June when the country's presidential elections take place at the same time that the beloved national team either qualifies for the World Cup or falls short, sometimes in heartbreaking fashion.

Yet even by his own combustible standards two years earlier he had crossed a line, when he killed a man in a quarrel over a gambling debt at a tennis match.

Firefighters in Northern California were battling two fast-moving brush fires Thursday as flames raced through terrain made combustible by four years of drought.