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We will be sitting on a powder keg if some serious action is not taken.
It would be taking a match to the powder keg that is the middle east.
Leaving the settlements untouched is like putting a flame next to a powder keg and saying: co-exist.
It is a powder keg waiting to blow—an accident waiting to happen.
Worse still, the ethnic unemployment rate is likely to rise even faster—a powder keg threatening social stability in the area that we represent.
I suggested to him that if he did that he would be lighting a powder keg.
This is the political powder keg of the future.
I am frankly astounded by the powder keg of views which the pilots hold which appear to have no expression upwards at all.
