(The sitting was suspended at 1.15 p.m. and resumed at 3 p.m.)

The situation in the Middle East is explosive.

If it does not, the situation may become explosive.

Subject Crisis in the Greek shipbuilding industry

The situation was explosive to an unimaginable degree.

When GATT was set up in 1947 it was a matter of bringing order to the post war trade chaos.

The explosive situation in Ukraine makes this report very much one of its time.

At heart it is a battle between the first rate and the second rate.'

The Council was informed of Ecuador's ratification in a letter of 6 January 1987 from Ecuador's mission to the Communities.

I worked with her on that report and provided her with information about the salmon fisheries in Northern Ireland.

I am certain that the European Union can do something about this oppressive, explosive situation.

Explosive yield

Booby trap.

The international community needs to take action now to help resolve this potentially explosive situation.

Intermittent explosive disorder

But I agree with the honourable Member it is an immensely serious situation when 16 million of our fellow citizens are unemployed and a substantial number of them in longterm unemployment.

Mind, it must be explosive.

The situation in south east Turkey continues to be explosive and to threaten peace in the region.

Exploding foil initiators (EFI)

Particular thought should be given to the role which the Community observers are trying to play in stabilizing the potentially explosive situation in Bosnia Herzegovina.

This whole place is boobytrapped.

Is the Commission prepared to remove the discrimination and to compensate these farmers who have to farm in this particular way?

If the European Union does not act quickly to redress the balance of this situation, both from a demographic point of view and from a social, economic and political point of view, we will be creating an explosive situation for future generations to deal with.

And so an explosive situation will remain explosive, North Korea s population will continue to suffer famines and tyranny, and words of war will continue to fly back and forth across the 38th parallel.

I might mention once more that the delicate political human rights issues on the one hand and the explosive social situation in this region on the other, in particular in the light of high population growth, are a volatile combination, which may affect all of us.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

In short, in a highly explosive area, Bulgaria finds itself in a delicate position, where it has proven itself to be an island of stability and ethnic peace.

First, we must not leave things in the lap of the Gods, we must not take decisions at the eleventh hour, because we could bring the European Union to what may well be an explosive situation.

The number of cancer patients has increase in an explosive manner.

Do you have then a condition which is an explosive effervescence? SAGAN

Chemical warfare does not depend upon explosive force to achieve an objective.

Now, that was a terrible decision for me to have to make, and it was political dynamite, frankly.

The Western weaponry bought by Iraq with Saudi and Kuwaiti oil

Surely Bush said in his peace plan that the arms race in that region must be checked ?

When social exclusion is combined with national sentiment, the result is powerful and explosive.

The sound of a German 88 high explosive shell coming in.

TAYLOR (DR). Mr President, my group, of course, has French and Italian Members who have a very keen interest in wine, and it falls to my responsibility as their representative on the Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, albeit coming from Northern Ireland, to speak in this debate.

International agreements must be complied with for the coastal nations to be in a credible position in relation to the Union. This is certainly true of the potentially explosive situation in the Western Sahara.

Are we acting responsibly if we look at just one particular outrage ?

That is why I shall make bold to start out by drawing attention to a highly topical situation, and one which is potentially very explosive on the human rights front, namely the situation in Congo following the assassination of President Kabila.

We are all familiar with the massive benefits that accrued from this explosive liberation of human potential.

It seemed appropriate that he who had lived amidst the cannon's roar should die explosively.

Sebastião had to go too, driven by curiosity of this explosive profession.

There are still extreme disparities between the two sides of the Mediterranean, which keep the peoples of the South in an explosive economic and social situation, with poverty and unemployment, particularly among young people.

However, nothing justified the subsequent acts of terrorism by either side, and in the current highly charged emotional situation, with the areas of conflict so widespread, it is very difficult to see a cease fire emerging.