They see it as a recipe for trouble and likely to touch off a powder trail to a big conflagration which would go well beyond Iraq's current borders - some of the big players, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Turkey included.
Although the British left a burning powder trail to destroy Fort Griswold's magazine, a daring militiaman entered the fort and extinguished the fire.
His men aimed the fort's guns at its walls, laid mines, and put down a powder trail to the overstocked powder magazine.
To signal the passage of a specific amount of time, small pieces of fragrant woods, resins, or different scented incenses could be placed on the incense powder trails.
Beverley is elaborately powdered, trailing silk robes, leaping out of her wheelchair at the prospect of an audience.
International Homes & Accommodations (glo-con.com/property search.php?real_estate=Y) is high clover for real estate addicts and the escape-fantasy-prone. Tropical casitas, powder-trail ski chalets, glass-walled penthouses the site links hundreds of exotic listings, from Sri Lanka to Idaho to the "Bulgarian Riviera," with tantalizing descriptions and multiple color photos.
There were enough staples — grains, rice, beans, pasta, powdered drinks, trail mix — to keep us from starvation, even in an emergency.
Husaini thought skiing in Switzerland would be as easy as skiing on powder snow trails back home.
The promotional literature plays up "60+ powder-drenched trails," "miles of private fishing," and the opportunity to immerse one's family "in everything 'Montana'".
I had two days to enjoy the high-speed fun, before heading off to my next stop, Lost Trail Powder Mountain, which lies at 6,400ft in the Bitterroot Mountains.
And here, spidered among 370 miles of ski trails, is everything for every skier: off-piste, backcountry, couloirs, groomed trails, powder fields.
