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a place of political unrest and potential violence
the United States cannot police all of the world's hot spots - a place where trouble exists or occurs regularly
How To Use trouble spot In A Sentence
- Abu Ghraib, a hard-bitten town surrounded by lush farmland, is one of the trouble spots for American soldiers facing fierce challenges from both Sunni Muslim insurgents and radical Shi'ite militiamen.
- The UN is sending peacekeeping troops into the trouble spot.
- The UN is sending peacekeeping troops into the trouble spot.
- Generic tasks will include curfew checks and patrolling trouble spot areas.
- Now, that goes along with sporadic continued violence in the town of Fallujah, and that town has been a trouble spot ever since April when U.S. forces opened fire in what they call the standoff with demonstrators, killing more than 15 and injuring dozens more. CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2003
- Often the atmosphere is filled with the persistent and noisy chopping of an army helicopter hovering above some potential trouble spot. A Channel of Peace
- In this two-part article series, we focus on indexing and coding techniques and on new tools to help users locate code trouble spots.
- During the interview, the former governor of Vermont appeared at ease handling questions that hopscotched across global trouble spots.
- In time, this may require the UN to consider co-operative, interventionist action in potential or active trouble spots.
- There is increasing demand for the United Nations to intervene in trouble spots throughout the world.
