'kindling' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to small pieces of wood used to help start a fire, such as when camping or in a fireplace. For example, "I gathered up some sticks and twigs for kindling so I could start a campfire".
Yet the fact is that three years after a despairing Tunisian barrow boy named Muhammad Bouazizi (pictured in the poster above) set himself on fire, kindling a region-wide sequence of revolts that some dubbed the Arab spring, a sense of deep disappointment has settled on the Middle East.
That's a worry as inflation subsides, kindling concern that the euro zone may slip into Japanese-style deflation, which would exacerbate debt burdens, both private and public.
Forests became kindling awaiting a spark and often got a lightning bolt carrying 5,000°F heat.As July arrived, the high-pressure dome weakened slightly and the returning rain, though modest, provided relief.
While acknowledging that sex imbalance is only one of many factors influencing levels of violence, Miss Hudson points out that the 30m unhappy unmarried men China is likely to have by 2020 could become "kindling for forces of political revolution at home".
And by pumping billions of dollars worth of weapons into an already unstable region, while at the same time kindling the flame of militant Islam, the CIA and Mr Wilson surely incurred a large debit to weigh against whatever positive results might have come from their actions.
In the 1980s its literary output was directed at South Korean democracy movements, then resisting their own military dictator, in the hope of kindling pro-North sympathies in the South.
He aimed at "removing the unfavourable conditions which hamper the economic development of the country and at kindling a healthy spirit of enterprise" (Witte's first budget to the Emperor, 1893).
After kindling, the electrodes are withdrawn until the reaction is completed; they are then reinserted into the molten slag and the furnace reheated to improve settling.
The lamp has taken many forms through the ages, but its essential feature has been eight receptacles for oil or candles and a holder for the shammash ("servant") light, which is used for kindling the other lights.
As with the Kalevala, this was instrumental in kindling renewed interest in a common national literary language in the late 19th century.
The biblical ban against work on the Sabbath, while never clearly defined, includes activities such as baking and cooking, travelling, kindling fire, gathering wood, buying and selling, and bearing burdens from one domain into another.
