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His command is built on a tightrope of mixed emotions, a powder keg ready to explode at the slightest suggestion of disrespect.
As often as not, it is started by some seemingly innocent remark that sparks an unexpected powder keg lurking in the mind of the listener.
She becomes a powder keg of emotion, especially in situations where tact would seem to be the rule.
What fat-cat politico wouldn't quake in his boots after a sufficient tongue lashing from this powder keg of fairy dust?
Hailing from the Balkans, the so-called powder keg of Europe, Croats are a tall and somewhat western looking people.
For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg.
It was a crime that finally ignited a powder keg and caused simmering tensions to erupt into violence.
If London during the President's visit will be a powder keg, surely the Mayor has a responsibility not to play with matches.
And when clubs chuck out at 2am, the mix of liquor, taxi queues and the sheer number of people makes for an interesting powder keg.
This morning a missed prisoner transfer was the spark that set off the powder keg.
As the powder keg of ethnic tensions in the region exploded, the camps were targeted by militias who launched lethal firebomb attacks.
We are sitting on a powder keg and decisions about what is needed must come from the people, who must take ownership of the issue.
And police, trying to defuse a potential powder keg of violence, have appealed for calm all round.
Heavy was the powder keg in the padded backpack he possessed-he'd taken all he could comfortably carry upon his back.
He becomes obsessed with them, and when he develops photos that threaten their happy marriage, he becomes a powder keg waiting to explode.
He repeated the hope last week, for he knows only too well that he is sitting on a powder keg.
This area of ethnic and religious diversity has been a powder keg for years, going back to Suleman the Magnificent.
Nevertheless, in the small town of Gori, religious diversity is slowly becoming a powder keg.
National pride had filled the powder keg, and it was national pride that exploded it.
Against that background, it is no exaggeration to state that the South Caucasus is a powder keg that could explode at any moment.
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Without knowing, we are sitting on a powder keg in which the fuse may or may not be lighted.
And he lowered the lantern until it rested on the very rim of the powder keg.
She did not try to carry the powder keg, but she took the powder in a girl's way.
Billy rested his left hand on the head of a powder keg, which stood on end on the counter beside him.
I was afraid I had said good-bye when you were left with that powder keg.
Stand back there or I'll drop a lighted match into a powder keg!
The Middle East remains a powder keg filled with charges and countercharges of human rights transgressions.
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