Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril.

Their nose you can see his nose is flared right now.

It just flared up, and he turned around, and he looked like this.

We made up a little batch and we put it on the driveway and we threw a match and phew, it flared up. Ah, it was great.

All that savage grandeur, the steely glinting hooves, the eruptions driven from the creature's mighty innards, breath stopped, heart stopped, nostrils madly flared, I didn't know if I wanted to break him, or be him.

But if conflict does erupt, the cost is far higher. When the territorial dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Diaoyu islands flared anew last year, Japanese auto exports to China plummeted 80 in just three months.

Hatred and violence against others seem to be manifested most powerfully as the result of fear they are survival reactions. The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.

Not anymore currently, Congo s eastern province of North Kivu is in the headlines almost every day. Last August, fighting to the north of the provincial capital Goma flared up again, provoking a major humanitarian crisis that has no end in sight.

However, as the SARS epidemic flared up in 2003, Dr. Jiang realized in April that Health Ministry reports of only 19 confirmed cases of the disease in Beijing were bogus he knew of almost ten times that amount. He decided to go public.

PRINCETON The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under analyzed. Some speak of them as the greatest global mobilization since 1968 when enragés in very different countries coalesced around similar concerns.

BERLIN When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a bloody and senseless surge of violence between Israel and Hamas, in which the main victims were innocent civilians maimed and killed on both sides.

But when violence flared up virtually simultaneously in Venezuela and protesters began dying at the hands of government agents, the Organization of American States raised its voice to announce that...it would not raise its voice. The situation was up to Venezuela to sort out, the OAS stated.

Villagers and merchants from both sides conducted a brisk business and border trade unfettered by the authorities. Bilateral tensions flared when Thai politics heated up after the September 2006 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, on charges of corruption and disloyalty to the monarchy.

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions. One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels twice the size of the BP spill.

Another political issue that continues to cause tension in New Caledonia is the inter ethnic strain between the Kanaks and the settlers from the French territory of Wallis and Futuna, a confrontation that flared between them in 2001 and 2002 (see A AC.109 2002 13, paras. 30 32 and A AC.109 2003 7, para.

From Scotland and Catalonia to the borders of Ukraine, the politics of nationality flared, while Europe s economy stagnated hostage to a German inflation phobia that dates back to 1923. And, as the year unfolded, a new geopolitical tug of war between the continent s two early twentieth century giants, Germany and Russia, became apparent, while Europe s amnesiac political elite seemed to be fumbling on one front after another.

BUDAPEST It s a well worn contrast the United States is religious, Europe is secular. Yet, in some respects, this clichéd opposition has actually been reversed recently religion played virtually no role during the last American presidential elections, while in a range of different European countries major controversies about religion have flared up, suggesting that questions of faith are back at the center of European politics.

SANTIAGO When violence flared up in Ukraine and protesters began dying at the hands of government agents, the European Union threatened sanctions against Ukrainian officials responsible for violence and excessive force. President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kyiv, leaving behind a private zoo with exotic pigs and goats and also the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland, who were in town trying to broker a deal to end the violence.