In an indication of what simmering tensions could bring if unleashed, a mob of Christian youths in Jos's Tina neighbourhood set up a roadblock yesterday where they attacked at least three Muslim residents, beating one into a coma.
The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has admitted that this week's wave of arrests and corruption allegations have "unleashed a storm" but improbably called for "unity and team spirit" as he appealed for a fifth term of office.
Andrew Lansley was belatedly shuffled away from the portfolio in 2012, but not before he had unleashed a gratuitous reorganisation, and written his marketopian plan on to the statute book.
Over the winter of 1937, Japanese troops in Nanjing unleashed a relentless onslaught of looting, burning, torture and murder.
It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile.
This year's Rite of Spring centenary has certainly unleashed a flood of tribute performances.
The accounts of the three individuals attacked in New York City reflect the typical hate-speech deployed during America's "War on Terror", which unleashed a new derogatory epithet for the apparent Muslim – "terrorist".
Brayshaw unleashed 9 bone-jarring tackles, as ample an indication as any of the disparity in hunger between the two sides.
But they can be offset by a more fundamental tendency towards inequality, which is unleashed wherever demographics or low taxation or weak labour organisation allows it.
Scores of campaigns against new housing developments have sprung up over the past two years and this surge of activism has been unleashed by a fatal contradiction in government policy.
The second is the catharsis unleashed in a series of bloody events, culminating in Django's massacre of the owner's entire household and the kneecapping of a loyal black servant – an "Uncle Tom" – whom we have been invited especially to dislike.
