They wanted to stir up controversy.

We managed to light a fire.

He explained how to make a fire.

Can we make a fire in this wind?

Tom tried to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

At worst, they may be able to foment a civil war.

In Arab countries, they only helped to inflame Islamic extremism.

We are talking about sparks that could ignite something that, for the moment, is cold.

Tom tried to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Economic failure could fuel further nationalist, xenophobic tendencies and even trigger military conflict.

That, too, helped rekindle a sense of national pride, extending from the Kremlin to the streets.

Netizens have come to know a troll as someone who posts a deliberately provocative message to fuel an argument online.

But it may also explain why one self immolation in Tunisia helped to kindle the Arab Spring, whereas some three dozen self immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns have failed to ignite a similar popular movement against the Chinese state.

Faced with a collapsing economy and approaching elections, the temptation for Morsi to stoke nationalist, anti Israel sentiment will become stronger.

One reckless utterance on social media can set people against each other, fueling unnecessary conflict in the country.

But if Chinese made products threaten their health and safety, there are sure to be opportunistic lawmakers ready to fan the flames.

In early August presidentaz caught the attention of the world media by threatening to reignite war with Armenia after the deaths of Azerbaijani soldiers in contested territory.

How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Of course, stability requires agreement between the two key actors and there are sure to be plenty of opponents and allies trying to stir up trouble between them.

The logic of this type of mobilization is that resources are directed to the group that shouts the loudest and is able to trigger social conflict. This means that attention is diverted from the weakest and those most in need to those who already are well enough off to be organized.

The logic of this type of mobilization is that resources are directed to the group that shouts the loudest and is able to trigger social conflict.

With a movie night, there would be a ready made excuse for inviting glitterati to attend G 8 events to help spark discussions.

Second, Central Asia s leadership transitions could tempt outside powers to exploit the resulting instability and spark a struggle for influence. Because the region was part of both the Soviet Union and the Russian empire, President Vladimir Putin s Kremlin regards it as part of Russia s natural sphere of influence.

Second, Central Asia s leadership transitions could tempt outside powers to exploit the resulting instability and spark a struggle for influence.

Erdoğan s strategy has been to whip up frenzy around these cases to solidify his traditional, religious conservative base, but also to gain the backing of domestic liberals.

And we should know by now that any Western military intervention with overtly political, rather than clearly humanitarian, objectives runs a real risk of inflaming sectarian sentiment.

In September, the Egyptian foreign ministry accused Erdoğan of seeking to provoke chaos and incite divisions in the Middle East region through his support for groups and terrorist organizations.

It is also conceivable that genuine apologies may be counterproductive, because they trigger a backlash from local extremists, which may in turn fuel even more flames on the other side.

That failure, and the emotional responses from both sides as to what was or was not offered in the talks, helped spark the violence which led to the second intifada in the winter of 2000.

No one now denies that the past year s sharp downswings in housing and equity prices, which followed long upswings far above historical benchmark levels helped to trigger and fuel the crisis.

Yet Russia, like Saakashvili, is playing with fire its strategy of encouraging separatist forces in the two Georgian provinces may inflame separatist tendencies in other parts of the Russian Federation (remember Chechnya?).

The Kremlin has also been attempting to stoke ethnic tensions a tactic used since the Czarist era with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claiming that Russia intervened in Syria to protect minorities.

The refugee camp in Yahotyn, a town half an hour's drive from the capital city of Kyiv, is the most recent example of how the supporters of right wing parties are able to fuel ethnic tensions related to refugees among local communities.

One could go on forever with possible films, but clearly G 8 movie night might rekindle life in the organization s moribund framework, and keep it going for many years to come.

By agreeing to significant compromises, the leaders of some new member states were, among other things, trying to show that rekindling strong national egoism in Europe is a dangerous, if not uncontrollable, game.

Thus, in seeking to co opt the Taliban, the US is not only bestowing legitimacy on a thuggish militia it also risks unwittingly reigniting Afghanistan s ethnic strife, which would most likely tear the country apart for good.

In other words, there are many things that could go wrong in the Middle East, any combination of which might stoke fear in markets and lead to much higher oil prices.

But the election result in Athens could fuel panic in financial markets, causing a crisis that would threaten to spill over into Italy, the eurozone s third largest economy, and, with some delay, France, the second largest.

A breakdown, by contrast, though unlikely to lead immediately to war, could easily foment developments that lead in that direction, and the region as a whole could be pulled even deeper into the current vortex of chaos and violence.

Al Qaeda s move to the Levant also threatens to spark a momentous confrontation between Sunni radicals some of whom have recently taken control of part of the Syrian Lebanese border and the Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate. Similarly, a new speculative bubble can appear anywhere if a new story about the economy appears, and if it has enough narrative strength to spark a new contagion of investor thinking.

Similarly, a new speculative bubble can appear anywhere if a new story about the economy appears, and if it has enough narrative strength to spark a new contagion of investor thinking.

These early reformers, among them Muhammad Abduh and Jamaleddin al Afghani, did not ignite the mass mobilization they hoped for, and were not able to redress social ills through better implementation of religious prescriptions.

Moreover, though it takes credit for recovery in East Asia, the truth is that Asia's collapse in 1997 had a great deal to do with IMF mismanagement in the first place, since the IMF helped to stoke financial panic.

Yet ever since the Soviet Union s collapse in 1991, Russia and China have sought to rekindle the close relations that once supposedly existed between the USSR and Mao s China before Khrushchev s denunciation of Stalin in 1956.