powder keg

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• Instead, we were confined and crammed into boardrooms and claustrophobic strategy sessions, the expanse of the series’ setpieces packed into a powder keg.

• Chile’s transformation from a neoliberal experiment led by Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” to a powder keg of leftist activism is one not many saw coming.

• Then the big concern is what happens over the weekend when Ida enters the Gulf of Mexico, a meteorological powder keg.

• It’s a powder keg waiting to explode unless the police and army are able to enforce the rule of law.

• For all that they poke fun at Josh’s cub-reporter opportunism, Schur, Helms and Ornelas—a Navajo showrunner leading a rare staff of Indigenous writers, Schmieding among them—also clearly see Rutherford Falls as an allegorical powder keg.

• Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.

• Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.

• This powder can be shipped anywhere and then reconstituted—just add water, as if it were instant coffee.

• So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.

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

• If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

• The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.