How To Use Flashpoint In A Sentence
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Brum boss Alex McLeish also labelled Ngog a "conman" over the 71st-minute flashpoint that spared the blushes of under-fire Rafa Benitez's side.
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With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
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Worse still for the proud black stars of Ghana, it appears as if their former son-in-law has also added Zimbabwe as one of the bloody flashpoints of Africa today!
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The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
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The fixture list had been arranged to keep matches with potential flashpoints away from the ground until December, but the cup draw has changed all that.
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This is one of the reasons the case has become such a flashpoint.
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Perhaps another tragedy but created not in the flashpoint of the boxing ring but over a phenomenal career was that of Muhammad Ali.
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Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
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The ANC congratulated "those members of the police force who displayed sensitivity and acted with restraint at the flashpoints that occurred in cities such as Port Elizabeth and Durban".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
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And the next flashpoint will inevitably be over environmental issues.
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While the League of Ireland has never had a strong culture of violence, most of the flashpoints that have occurred have involved supporters from one or both of these clubs.
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The post-Cold War need for mobile, flexible forces to deal with threats and flashpoints that can flare up at a moment's notice has placed a new emphasis on airlift.
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The violence marked resumption of disturbances at the flashpoint Holy Cross primary school as Catholic parents and Protestant residents rampaged after a confrontation as the parents arrived to pick their children up.
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Politically, this is a short-term flashpoint," says Democratic strategist Peter Fenn, referring to the Islamic center debate.
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Although there are flashpoints of conflict all over the country there is no national policy on how to tackle them.
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The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
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This dispute is the latest flashpoint in one of this sport's longest-running battles — between Europe's richest pro teams that pay the game's superstars, and the national federations that participate in tournaments such as the World Cup and European Championship.
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This is one of the reasons the case has become such a flashpoint.
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It's been a flashpoint for violence since the United States invaded.
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Here is a checklist of the flashpoints to watch out for in the current crisis as the months roll by.
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But flashpoints between judiciary and executive are nothing new, the Human Rights Act renders judges more powerful, and Blunkett's overtures are chiefly perceived as sabre-rattling.
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But flashpoints between judiciary and executive are nothing new, the Human Rights Act renders judges more powerful, and Blunkett's overtures are chiefly perceived as sabre-rattling.
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His intervention has helped ensure that violent flashpoints have not spun out of control.
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The fixture list had been arranged to keep matches with potential flashpoints away from the ground until December, but the cup draw has changed all that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another flashpoint is deleting a partner's programmes to make room for one's own.
The Sun
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Facial recognition has the potential to be the next privacy flashpoint.
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The flashpoint of debate and controversy is the status of women, and Makhmalbaf's films, along with those of his wife and daughter, continue to hammer away at this theme.
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Many Sunnis in flashpoint neighborhoods say they are lying low or temporarily moving to safer areas as they wait in fear that the elections will spark a new sectarian backlash against them.
Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence
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The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre.
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The avoidance of formal organisational changes has also avoided a political flashpoint.
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Tension in the city is rapidly reaching flashpoint.
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Europe will be a flashpoint at the party conference in Birmingham, which begins a week tomorrow.
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Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
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Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
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Once the media caravanserai moves on to the next global flashpoint, we will likely ignore the messy aftermath to the heroic events of last week.
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The latest flashpoint for Mr Taylor came when a ‘mindless’ passenger smashed his fist through a window because passengers would not make way for his queue-jumping pals.
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The avoidance of formal organisational changes has also avoided a political flashpoint.
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With 22,000 hectares of farmland at stake, clearly the issue has come to a flashpoint.
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Only Berlin continued to be a flashpoint until the superpowers reached an understanding about the two Germanies.
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verbing" of nouns (or the creation of "nerbs") has been a flashpoint for the past four or five decades with the growth of business management lingo.
Salon
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During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
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The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre.
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The fixture list had been arranged to keep matches with potential flashpoints away from the ground until December, but the cup draw has changed all that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oil prices are a political flashpoint because they feed through to petrol and diesel prices at the pumps.
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And the next flashpoint will inevitably be over environmental issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
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There were flashpoints: most notably when the board tried to rubberstamp massive bonuses for the very people responsible for screwing the company up.
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Environmentalism has become one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the battle between red and blue America.
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The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre.
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Oil prices are a political flashpoint because they feed through to petrol and diesel prices at the pumps.
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Derrida became a flashpoint for controversies over the allegedly baleful influence of postmodernism and post-structuralism on the Humanities.
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The flashpoint has been the new media law passed by parliament in late December that allows regulators to fine journalists for reporting that regulators deem "unbalanced" or "offensive.
Orban Vows Tighter Spending Rules
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They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
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The flashpoints of division between Europe and America reflect this underlying conflict.
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Last week, about 200 non-essential workers were evacuated from an oil facility near Port Harcourt, the flashpoint of recent unrest and the hub of Nigeria's oil production and exports.
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We don't need additional flashpoints, especially as the situation remains explosive here.
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Once the media caravanserai moves on to the next global flashpoint, we will likely ignore the messy aftermath to the heroic events of last week.
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Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
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If you like the Bourne style of action then this will suit you fine, but if you like to * see* your action (which I do), like the end fight in flashpoint to example, where it's brutal but you can still see whats going on then your going to be dissapointed.
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This extreme is the flashpoint putting gasoline at $4 a gallon, reducing mileage driven, demand for trucks, SUV's, and lops off lush profit margins for auto makers.
Oil! Oil! Boil And Bubble
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Yet what is true for us seems just as accurate when we look across the globe - particularly to critical international flashpoints.
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Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
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The “verbing” of nouns (or the creation of “nerbs”) has been a flashpoint for the past four or five decades with the growth of business management lingo.
Grammar policing = class war
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The quickest flashpoint is likely to come even before Boehner officially claims the gavel in January: The expiring Bush-era tax cuts will top of the list of must-do items during a lame-duck session of Congress slated to begin Nov. 15.
Resurgent Republicans take back control of the House
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Another flashpoint is deleting a partner's programmes to make room for one's own.
The Sun
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The frequency of incidents raises serious concern because the area is known as a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.
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The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre.
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One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America's Future.”
Bill Clinton’s Convention Role - Swampland - TIME.com
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Certain of the variables included in this model augment the flashpoints approach to industrial confrontation.
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For example, if the fragrance flashpoint is 130, with a normal paraffin, soy or beeswax candle, evaporation or flash-off is a factor.
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The Flashpoint occurs when corporatist attempt to compel all in support of their cause which might be plans to achieve religious or cultural unity, raciest, sexist, or sexual-preference supremacy, and the granddaddy of corporatism; territorial and financial domination which exploits all other forms of corporatism to achieve its ends.
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One of the flashpoints is the precautionary approach.
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London is a major station for the travelling carnival of creators, dictators, scenesters and professional narcissists who parade between the world's fashion flashpoints.
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Another potential flashpoint is approaching.
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Another potential flashpoint is approaching.
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Tension in the city is rapidly reaching flashpoint.
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North Yorkshire Police had raised concerns over the plans, because of the small size of the building, suggesting the staircase linking the two floors could become a flashpoint for any trouble.
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Because of the army's presence, the city is seen to be the flashpoint of the area.
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I said, ‘Mr. President as long as there are checkpoints, there are flashpoints.’
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Last week, about 200 non-essential workers were evacuated from an oil facility near Port Harcourt, the flashpoint of recent unrest and the hub of Nigeria's oil production and exports.
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All six warehouses of them are prepositioned in locations all throughout the south, but particularly what we call flashpoint areas, areas that might experience trouble, said Grande.
Humanitarian Organizations in Sudan Prepare for Referendum Aftermath
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Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
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Because of the army's presence, the city is seen to be the flashpoint of the area.
