Sentence examples for tinder from inspiring English sources

In the centre of the country, people of the two faiths live side-by-side, and there are big minorities everywhere a scene providing ample tinder for troublemakers.

"The party and corruption are like water and fire," sobbed its mouthpiece, the People's Daily, surprising those who think they are more like dry tinder and matches.Some, however, will still recognise the politics behind Mr Zhou's fate.

Sensibilities are tinder dry, waiting to be exploited by any perceived insult by insignificant Westerners.

One apparently infiltrated by government-hired thugs turned nasty.Should political deadlock provide a spark, there is plenty of dry tinder.

In contrast, the NC and UML risk becoming seen as the parties of the upper castes.The Maoists' critics see their courting of the Madhesis and others as a cynical strategy for achieving their long-term goal of absolute power; and as playing with fire over the dry tinder of identity politics.

Baked by the sun, this is now one more load of tinder waiting to catch fire.

Here, clobber, shoes and jewellery are on the menu, complete with a Tinder-style swiping system to like or reject individual items.

These were "not a cigarette butt being dropped in a tinder-dry forest" but "a gasoline truck exploding" in the middle of one, Mr Wallison says.Mr Wallison's argument, portrayed as small-government extremism by the left, was dismissed as too narrow by his Republican peers.

This week, the assassination of a prominent politician in the city of Karachi, ever an ethnic tinder-box, kicked off an orgy of tit-for-tat violence that's left over 50 dead and reminded everyone else that the country's commercial capital has seen perhaps 300 political murders this year alone.The flooding, worst of all, has grown yet worse under unrelenting rainfall.

These were "not a cigarette butt being dropped in a tinder-dry forest" but "a gasoline truck exploding" in the middle of one, he says.

Bolts of lightning shot out of the clouds, and bursts of flame exploded from the tinder-dry undergrowth below.