Sentence examples of "powder keg" in English
Two years ago, Egypt believed that major discoveries of offshore natural gas would defuse its dangerous youth bomb, the powder keg that fueled the Arab Spring in 2011.
Два года назад Египет считал, что открытие крупных шельфовых месторождений природного газа обезвредит опасную «молодежную бомбу», ту взрывоопасную смесь, на которой взросла «арабская весна» 2011 года.
With the rest of the Arab world becoming more democratic, depriving Palestinians of their right to self-determination is creating a powder keg that is bound one day to explode in the territories occupied by Israel - much as a bus exploded in Tel Aviv this week.
По мере наступления демократических перемен в арабских странах, лишение палестинцев права на самоопределение представляет собой бомбу замедленного действия, которая рано или поздно взорвется на оккупированных Израилем территориях, подобно автобусу, взорванному в Тель-Авиве на этой неделе.
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