What happens to the global economy when a conflagration erupts on China's doorstep and engulfs Japan?
After the initial conflagrations erupted in Ferguson, Mo., when a grand jury there did not indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, most of the demonstrations across the country have been peaceful.
Such bets added considerable tinder to the financial conflagration that erupted in 2008.
The conflagration which erupted the following year destroyed much of Vienna's intellectual life.
Given the high state of military readiness in the region, a major conflagration might have erupted if Iraq had fired at either of the American-piloted spy planes.
Were NATO to admit Georgia and a conflagration between Russian and Georgian forces erupted over Abkhazia, a breakaway province, by law, an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all.
The opening of a Burger King location in the Israeli-occupied territories lead to a breach of contract dispute between Burger King and its Israeli franchise; the dispute eventually erupted into a geopolitical conflagration involving Muslim and Jewish groups on multiple continents over the application of and adherence to international law.
Over the next 24 hours, on August 29, this fire -- her sweet name of "Millie" apparently resulted from a dispatcher's typo of "Miller" -- erupted into one of the most devastating conflagrations of the season.
The conflagration of 1973 was barely extinguished when the next crisis erupted, in Lebanon.
Playing Both Sides In Lebanon's Civil War The conflagration of 1973 was barely extinguished when the next crisis erupted, in Lebanon.
But in all his actions, Mr. Mubarak left no doubt that he, like President Clinton and indeed virtually all the leading figures in the crisis, sees the clashes between the Israelis and the Palestinians as threatening a wider conflagration, one that could erupt into a new Arab-Israeli war.
