| 1 | Don't burn your fingers by getting too involved. | |
| 2 | The new government had laid its head on the block when it made this new law to control the country's money. | |
| 3 | "I believe some countries now are playing with fire. And I hope the U. S. won't be burned by this fire, " Cui said, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal. | |
| 4 | It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss Zhura as an unrepresentative crackpot whose defence of Stalin says little about contemporary Russian opinion. | |
| 5 | Washington is obsessed with Afghanistan, and though the Americans have a major base in Kyrgyzstan at Manas, they seem disinclined to do very much. |