The risks were potentially high - "So strangely do such powerful discharges behave," he wrote in 1899, "that I have often experienced a fear that the atmosphere might be ignited".
A1 American military commanders and civilian officials have decided to move slowly in carrying out any operation against Mr. Sadr, fearing that if American forces killed or arrested him now, wider violence might be ignited.
He still has plans, however, and a burning hope that his long-extinguished career might once again be ignited: "I just need to get published again".
People can be ignited by anything.
The dry kindling of resentment is here to be ignited.
The moxa sticks will be ignited from the bottom.
The gas inside the tube will be ignited later.
It was not clear what specifically triggered the explosion, which occurred about 7 p.m., though Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said a cloud of fuel might have been ignited when the lights in the garage, at 26-17 Murray Street near 27th Avenue in Flushing, were turned on.
Massey Energy, operator of the Upper Big Branch mine, said that the blast was fueled by a seep of natural gas from the mine floor that might have been ignited by sparks from a coal-cutting tool in use on the mine's face.
Social entrepreneurs are igniting progress.
