"Everybody is euphoric about the outbreak of democracy, and you have this potential bomb in there."

"All these airplanes running around with a potential bomb in their belly," a senior board official said last month, explaining his concern.

But I wasn't an ordinary yachtsman and that made Metcalfe a potential bomb.

Many people dropped backpacks and other bags as they fled, requiring each to be treated as a potential bomb.

After that, in first the hours and then the days ahead, every parked, abandoned truck loomed as a potential bomb.

It was a field of potential bombs.

Yes, Garrison is a potential bomb, and yes he would seem to have his finger on his own trigger.

The fact remains: while he's alive Garrison is a potential bomb.

The reason: while most countries instruct their forces to search for potential bombs, Israelis are trained to pick out the potential bombers.

The potential political bombs in the proposal have been defused by limiting the companies' ability to adjust some prices.