It is in such massings of frustration that a fuse for revolt can, by accident, sometimes be lit.
"Now whether it was deliberate or not, I don't know, but I blew a fuse, " said one participant.
Sometimes people blow a fuse by trying to get their wipers to move when they're stuck to the windscreen.
Among the materials found were a galvanized metal pipe, a fuse, coils of metal ribbon and several bags of chemical powders, it adds.
When lightning struck the box, it blew a fuse, which caused two catastrophic problems: it cut off communication and froze the signal on the color green.
Still, a number of things could go wrong from a fuse malfunctioning, a problem with the barrel's assembly to a round prematurely detonating inside the tube, he said.
What followed lights-out at the Sleep Disorders Center was, predictably enough, not sleep. (Imagine for a moment going to bed in a fuse box.) Every time I moved, I got tangled in a wire.
He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.
Wall Street boomed, the United Nations picked a Manhattan spot on the East River as its base, and developer Robert Moses lit a fuse on city projects that created the skyline that is so familiar to us today.
On the drive there, a fuse blew, knocking out the car stereo, and so I pulled over, removed the fuse box, fashioned a fuse out of some aluminum foil from a pack of cigarettes, and got the cassette deck going again.
Reid also had a safety fuse containing black powder, a U.S. government official said.
And when it comes, 15 agonizing pages later, the results are as explosive as a long fuse sizzling its way to a brick of dynamite.
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Saudi officials believe that the prince's assailant exploded the 100-gram device using a detonator with a chemical fuse, which would also not be detected by a metal detector.
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It was highlighted by a cartoonish visual of a bomb with a lit fuse.
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Like the Conservative reforms of the 1980s, Labour's changes may have a long fuse.
Aldridge said the test in Nevada involved dropping a laser-guided bomb into a tunnel and exploding it with a delayed fuse.
In 2007 Warren Buffett told shareholders that public-sector pension funding was inadequate, and called it a time bomb with a long fuse.
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Some Toyota hybrids could stop in their tracks because of an electrical problem leading to a blown fuse, the company warned early this morning.
However, Munnelly, Billy Sheehan and Conway are playing well, though Sheehan has a short fuse and may find it difficult to get through this seventy minutes of tough derby football.
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In Game Three of the Divisional Series between the Rangers-Rays, you could sense that Joe Maddon and his ball club were working on a short fuse when it came to the umpires.
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Imagine a standup comic who delivers the punch-lines of his jokes first, a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown, or a stick of dynamite with a unique fuse that ignites only after it explodes.
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Its research also suggests many UK adults do not have adequate protection from electrical fires - less than half of those surveyed (49%) have a Residual Current Device in their fuse box, a safety device which minimises the risk of fire by cutting off the power in the event of a fault.
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Offering a solution for the long haul is Fuse Corps, a non-profit devoted to recruiting and training batches of civic entrepreneurs year after year.
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Specifically came the condition -- with a short-fuse deadline attached -- that Pakistan must be included in any peace talks.
And Kevin Spacey, as their steely office manager, Williamson, plants a daringly long fuse and ignites it with the smallest flicker.
Researchers will participate in a short-fuse, crucible-style environment to invent new approaches to the identification of people, places, things and activities from still or moving defense and open-source imagery.
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She told me about a specific effort Fuse Corps Fellow Erika Dimmler is working on in Sacramento with Mayor Kevin Johnson that will allow for the creation of edible school gardens that will feed the students that grow them.
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While a number of yanglou mansions fuse eastern and western styles, a typical dwelling is more traditionally southern Chinese in appearance: one-storey with a red brick facade and topped with overhanging eaves.
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