Planned tabula rasa combats conflagration by asphyxiation - literally dialling down the oxygen in the atmosphere.
And last week she sparked a worldwide Twitter conflagration by suggesting that a New Zealand high school was right to ban short skirts, "so male teachers are not distracted".
PIERRE NKURUNZIZA is the latest in a string of African presidents to risk a conflagration by refusing to step down when the constitution says their time in office is up.
It can be easy to forget that the now-ubiquitous "Housewives" franchise was borne of a housewifely renaissance, fanned into conflagration by Marc Cherry's "Desperate Housewives," the breakout hit of the 2004 television season.
In subsequent colloquy, the president stressed that we would be "in a bad position" if we chose to set off an international conflagration by rejecting proposals that would seem quite reasonable to survivors, if any cared.
Yet it ignited a conflagration: by the evening, hundreds of Asian men had gathered in Glodwick, where they put up barricades and threw stones and petrol bombs at the police, who were now in full riot gear.
Better, if possible, to co-opt such an enemy than risk a wider conflagration by killing him in a shrine.Elsewhere in the Middle East, Mr Bush must not allow his Iraqi woes to continue to distract him from the need to make progress in Palestine.
In an interview, Sheik Gainutdin said that Mr. Putin and other leaders had been largely supportive of the Muslim community, but he said that Moscow city officials were risking a conflagration by not doing more to address an acute shortage of mosques.
With memories of last year's wildfires still vivid across the West, men and women armed with chain saws and an infusion of taxpayer money are now racing against further conflagration by cutting down millions of the trees that surround towns like this one.
The medical journal enterprise - after the New England Journal of Medicine created a bit of a conflagration by calling secondary users of data "research parasites" - is finally engaging in the dialogue about solutions in a serious way.
