Sentence examples for as a flashpoint from inspiring English sources

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The International Crisis Group cites it as a flashpoint for violence.

He was booed for the strikeouts — serving, as always, as a flashpoint for grumbling fans.

This is an incredibly sensitive area that could act as a flashpoint with the profession.

The town emerged as a flashpoint last week when the government said "armed gangs," its oft-used euphemism for antigovernment activists, killed about 120 soldiers and police.

Things are quite a bit more fraught on the left, where preference strategies serve as a flashpoint in the age-old struggle between purity and pragmatism.

Tyco's annual meeting earlier this year in Bermuda served as a flashpoint over the conglomerate's corporate domicile and its tax and accounting policies.

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In the roiling debates over women's reproductive rights, tubal ligation might seem not as big of a flashpoint for controversy as, say, the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate.

For most of the Bundys' far-right allies, though, the showdown in Nevada wasn't as much about the rancher and his land as it was a flashpoint in their growing beef with the federal government.

As it is, Alexander can at least congratulate himself on raising public awareness of a prime minister's duty to bestow his presence sparingly, with careful judgment, having considered, if he or she must accept a compromising invitation, how attendance could translate into human rights leverage or, as Ed Miliband prefers, "a flashpoint for protest".

Sex work, as Faludi notes, has always been a flashpoint of feminist politics, as have beauty and body issues.

The protest became a flashpoint for black activists as well as nationalists.

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