Skin smouldering to ash

Others, smouldering giants, rugged and austere home to pirates,

The continuation of the smouldering civil war in that country could in certain circumstances carry with it the danger of destabilization, not only for Guatemala, but for the whole region.

We would like to see more attention and resources devoted to early identification of the warning signs of trouble in order to prevent smouldering conflicts from igniting into full blown confrontations.

Moreover, the international community tends to be more responsive to putting out fires than to preventing them, and once the fires are put out it often turns its back on the smouldering combustible remains.

The contact group on thermal processes in the metallurgical industry not mentioned in part II of Annex C and on smouldering of copper cables noted that written comments as well as those from the regional consultations had been reviewed.

Among them the acute crisis in the Balkans, the still smouldering hotbed of the Cyprus problem, the persistence despite the appreciable progress made of the Arab Israeli confrontation and the lack of settlement of the situation around the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

It chanced that I walked that way across the fields the following night, about the same hour, and hearing a low moaning at this spot, I drew near in the dark, and discovered the only survivor of the family that I know, the heir of both its virtues and its vices, who alone was interested in this burning, lying on his stomach and looking over the cellar wall at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering to himself, as is his wont.