We urge them to stop what they are doing now and listen to our warnings before the forces of social unrest start to smoulder".
But in the east of the country, dozens of micro-wars smoulder unchecked.
This is an unintended consequence of sanctions, which were in part crafted by America and its allies to hurt the Guard.On the country's periphery, revolts by minorities such as the (mostly Sunni) Kurds and Baluchis smoulder on.
At 12, the gorgeous green eyes already starting to smoulder, he boldly brushed lips with a classmate as they sang "I'll k-i-s-s kiss you in the d-a-r-k dark" at a concert in St Joseph's convent in Mumbai.
While the white Dutch Reformers have eschewed their old belief in apartheid, some couldn't quite swallow the "Belhar Confession", a document written in 1986 which stresses racial and social inclusiveness.In those quarrelsome South Africans' spiritual home, the Netherlands, intra-Protestant rows also smoulder on in some places.
ASEAN will face other regional crises, and unless its members are prepared to criticise, negotiate and, if necessary, impose sanctions, problems will continue to smoulder, much like the forest floor.
Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe are all embroiled in a terrible war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea sponsors rebels in Liberia, and civil wars smoulder on in Sudan, Burundi and Congo-Brazzaville, among others.
The rubbish mounds smoulder like a lava flow which has only just come to a halt.Dotted along the road, and on the steep hills to the side, you can see tent encampments of people who lost their homes in the quake.
The burden of impending European Solvency 2 regulations on the insurance industry would become less onerous.Yet a bonfire of regulations would smoulder rather than blaze.
Shops and vegetable stalls have been ransacked, and several ministries still smoulder.
In 2013 the sovereign-debt crisis will smoulder on.
