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At the building's south side, the Tinder Box also has signs in its window, announcing sales on cigars and all merchandise.

Combine this with hot weather, he said, and "tinder box" conditions are created.

Late July and August traditionally sees a spike in forest and brush fires in Greece, where high temperatures contribute to tinder box conditions.

It sounds a cliche but it was just like a tinder box. It took hold so quickly"

No, I mean the scandal of how a tower block of homes containing hundreds of people could go up like a tinder box, killing who-knows how many.

He said that Kashmir was akin to a tinder box at present, with extreme volatility in the political situation and without timely intervention by the world community the consequences are bound to be ghastly and catastrophic.

Then came Gladys Young with her latest jewelry collection for the Vero label, displayed for a whole afternoon at the second floor restaurant in Tinder Box.

"The wooden floors would have still had oil from the sheep's wool from the looms engrained within it, so the building itself was like a giant tinder box." Marsden resident Sandra Richardson, 70, worked at the Mill between 1996 and 2004 when it was taken over by Holland & Sherry.

"The problem is that prison is a tinder box right now, if you take the cigarettes away the whole thing will just go boom.

"Kashmir is akin to a tinder box at present, with extreme volatility in the political situation and without timely international intervention the consequences are bound to be ghastly.

Five years of drought have turned much of the state into a tinder box with eight blazes burning from Shasta County in the far north to Camp Pendleton, just north of San Diego.

For example, the war in Syria--which has reportedly killed almost 12 percent of the population , and made millions of others homeless--is thought to have been caused partly by a drought that forced rural peasants to move to the cities, where swelling populations and high unemployment created a tinder box that exploded when regime forces began using violence to quell popular protests.

Pressures and complaints are like sparks in a tinder box.

In the summer of 1860, America is a tinder box, ready to blow.

Washington would be allowing the ignition of a tinder box if it did not make some hard decisions swiftly.