Sentence examples for a growing point from inspiring English sources

In the United States, the issue of what to do about Russia was a growing point of contention between the Pentagon and the White House.

The additional money for those who have exhausted their standard 26 weeks of jobless pay has been tied up since the beginning of June but had become a growing point of contention since February when Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, initiated a one-man filibuster against a temporary extension of the safety-net spending.

Friday's action may signal that studios are shifting to offense when it comes to rights issues, which have become a growing point of vulnerability in a film industry that is increasingly dependent on well-known "brands" but are then exposed to the complications of copyright law.

Cyber hacking has been a growing point of contention.

Some chemists had led the field of AI in the early 1970s (DENDRAL and CONGEN [8], LHASA [9]) and it was natural to assume that chemistry would be a growing point for the semantic web.

Civilian deaths are also a growing point of tension between Kabul and Washington.

This establishment growth is necessary because palms, unlike woody broad-leaved plants, do not have the means for growing a thicker trunk; moreover, they have only a single growing point.

I remember finally feeling free to be myself, especially during a pivotal growing point in my life as I entered my freshman year in college.

Cut right below a node, which is a joint or growing point of the stem from which side branches and leaves may grow.

A chemical substance, probably a flowering hormone of an as-yet-unknown nature, then moves to the shoot apex and causes a transformation of the vegetative growing point into a flowering shoot.

The transduction involved the formation of a chimeric viral-cellular RNA, strand switching of the reverse transcription growing point from an infectious retrovirus to the chimeric RNA, and often a subsequent deletion during the rest of viral DNA synthesis.