"The climate is very charged, and a serious conflagration could ensue if events spiral out of control," Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said on Wednesday.
The series involves a fire-and-rescue squad in Chicago, a city that apparently has a serious conflagration-and-other-crises problem, given how often this group finds itself rushing to a burning apartment building, car or whatever.
If you allow them their feelings and give them time to process their initial feelings before allowing things to turn into a huge conflagration, this and all future "serious talks" will go better.
In its painfully artificial innocence, its thundering silence about the cataclysm of blood that was engulfing Europe, the book is as much a passionate reaction to the First World War as the serious anti-war novels that were published in the conflagration's aftermath.
The conflagrations continue, while we wait.
And besides the ever-present threat of a terrible conflagration on the Korean peninsular itself, North Korea's development of long-range missiles, and its sales of the technology to American bugbears such as Iran and Syria, have made it a serious global concern to strategists in Washington.But both America and South Korea have cause to worry about the other's policy.
Israel-Palestine, by contrast, is a draining confrontation but not today the potential spark to a conflagration; nor does it offer any new encouraging elements; nor is it likely that Netanyahu, if re-elected next year, would cease using Iran as a diversion from serious engagement with the Palestinians, who are divided in crippling ways they and the United States are reluctant to address.
But such conflagrations are not limited to soccer.
No. 18 and 19 show almost an explosion or conflagrations.
Smaller conflagrations across the country were too many to number.
