powder keg

They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

Logic is a rare bird in these parts and Crimea is nothing short of a powder keg.

The Bossi-Fini law has become a political powder keg in Italy since the tragedy.

Gao says that China is a powder keg approaching the “explosion point.”

"There goes the powder keg under the water gate," cried Tomaso.

Otherwise he would have taken a chance on burning through his thongs at the candle in the powder keg.

It came out, too, how Billy Topsail had held the candle over the powder-keg.

Some time after Felipe's departure, Stephens went to his powder-keg and measured out three charges of blasting-powder.

She would have shuddered to see a man sit carelessly down upon a powder keg with a pipe in his mouth.