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Example sentences for: ignite

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Growing more indignant by the paragraph, the editors declared it "time to ignite a popular outcry against unelected officials and their efforts to invalidate the results of elections."
The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.
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.
In truth, though, flash in the pan refers to the occasional misfiring of the old flintlock muskets when the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.
Time stresses the historical angle, calling the Balkans a centuries-old "tinderbox" that the NATO airstrikes will ignite.