The first modern Olympic Games, held in 1896 in Athens, ignited conflict between colonizer and colonized, a dynamic that continued for decades, said David C. Young, a classicist and Olympic historian at the University of Florida.
It is hard to identify the source of Mancunians' brazen independence, which may have ignited conflict between entrepreneurs and their employees, but it was also what united them to support the abolition of slavery.
All of these factors together functioned as the very long fuse that would ultimately ignite conflict that spread across Europe and beyond, catalyzing world war.
Sinai is where Palestinian militants from Gaza and Islamist militants from elsewhere might find refuge and roam undisturbed, destabilizing the delicate border and testing Israel's patience, perhaps even igniting conflict.
"There's nothing easier than to ignite" conflict, Mr. Ben-Eliezer said today during a visit to the area of the attack, between the border town of Shlomi and Kibbutz Matzuva.
Calling for a concrete deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, he described it as "a nation that is falling apart in a merciless civil war," where the Sunni-Shiite divide could ignite conflict throughout the Middle East and where terrorists are setting up permanent bases to attack targets around the world.
"Forcing ethnic communities in their ancestral homes could ignite conflict," Huete-Pérez warns.
Earlier on Monday, President Bashir reiterated that he would accept the outcome of the vote, allaying fears that the split could re-ignite conflict over the control of the south's oil reserves.
Still, it would take a spark to ignite conflict.
War-weary Americans love the argument that NATO is a quasi-imperial, militaristic force that's likely to ignite conflict for unnecessary reasons.
This is the point at which the generational conflict ignites, a conflict that many assume no longer exists just because parents and children wear the same trainers these days.
