Corruption, poverty, guns and drugs have turned these elements into an explosive mix.
"We knew that we had a very dangerous, explosive mix."
But there has been no overall solution to the problem of the potentially explosive mix of fuel and air in near-empty tanks.
By contrast, baseball batting is an explosive mix of hit and miss, with failures of execution more common than successes.
Combine it with the cheap, readily available heroin and cocaine on the streets and you have an explosive mix.
An explosive mix of memory and shame short-circuits into hallucinations that creep in and eventually take over.
Serbs, Turks and Gypsy minorities add to the potentially explosive ethnic mix.
For transience and novelty are an explosive mix.
It is an explosive mix that has led to a series of shooting incidents in recent weeks.
The vote marked an end to a nomination but not to the explosive mix of law and politics that quickly became known as the Bork Battle.