Sentence examples for global conflagration from inspiring English sources

Back then, the result was an even greater global conflagration.

How can the history of a global conflagration be rescued from national narcissisms and delusions?

About 60 million perished in a global conflagration of total warfare.

Lawless behaviour by powerful state actors is corroding the crucial institutions created in 1945 to prevent another global conflagration.

When the global conflagration began, Ross — to the surprise of his readers and even of some of his staff — proved himself prepared.

Though bonds are hardly a perfect hedge against such risks, they typically beat stocks (except, perhaps, in cases of global conflagration, when both fare badly).

But, quite apart from the conflict in Iraq, the fighting in Afghanistan has now endured for almost as long as both global conflagrations combined.

Some date back to the Republic's founding, while others have been adopted since the mid-twentieth century to prevent global conflagrations.

"War" is a fuzzy category, shading from global conflagrations to neighborhood turf battles, so the organizations that track the frequency and damage of war over time need a precise yardstick.

So they suggested that the Chicxulub impact, which is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and many other plant and animal species, was near the threshold for a global-conflagration event.

But the killings of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza, which are exhaustively reported and not euphemised away as "collateral damage" by the global Muslim media, have created a general volatility, in which seemingly local acts can, as the Danish cartoon controversy proved, immediately spark a worldwide conflagration.