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Example sentences for: ignite

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The conservative Jerusalem Post led its front page with the warning by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, following his Cairo summit with King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, that the negotiations deadlock and Israel's plan to expand Jerusalem could ignite violence that might prove unstoppable.
Why not call witnesses, inflame these incendiary accusers, and help them ignite the proceedings, perhaps torching their own party in the process?
Lederer writes, “the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.”
An array of editorials in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Spain trotted out much the same arguments: Hanging Ocalan would ignite more Kurdish violence in Turkey and further strain Turkey's relations with the countries of the European Union, which it wants to join.
… An editorial warns that the bombardment of Chechnya could ignite a war in the Caucasus.