Wilco's volatile line-up has stabilised, and their music has grown more elegant.
In one potential hot spot, along the volatile line that separates Iraqi Arabs and Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq, for example, General Odierno is leaving in place a combat brigade's headquarters — the commanding officers, that is, without the combat troops themselves.
At 22, Mr. Vines has emerged as an unlikely advocate (and lightning rod) for those straddling one of the most volatile fault lines in America's culture war: homosexual Christians.
But it sits atop a web of overlapping and potentially volatile fault lines — between East and West, the European Union and Russia, and Greece and Turkey, whose troops occupy the northern part of the island.
Gun violence has opened a predictably partisan divide as one of the most volatile fault lines of the 2016 election, with Hillary Clinton pledging to fight for gun control reforms and promising to stand up to the powerful lobby group opposed these laws, the National Rifle Association.
In the next few years, the court will most likely confront issues that run along our country's most volatile dividing lines: President Obama's health care law, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, abortion restrictions and police stops of undocumented immigrants.
It would require extreme naivety to see that as a non-political statement in the circumstances, with those involved clearly well acquainted with the volatile fault lines of Scottish football.
This resulted in a very volatile bottom line for the business, which was OK while I still had savings, but not OK once they had run out.
The febrile crescent represents the volatile fault line between Sunnis and Shiites, with Syria the prize.
And, in that connection, Tyler is one of the two contemporary American authors – the other being Marilynne Robinson in Gilead and Home – who have most thoughtfully explored religion, an increasingly volatile fault-line in the country's culture and politics.
