Sentence examples for flashpoint event from inspiring English sources

A3 Ulster Violence Averted In Portadown, British troops and police erected a steel barrier and blocked Protestant Orangemen from completing their annual march through a Roman Catholic neighborhood, usually a flashpoint event.

There's more to it than that, of course, but when people talk about the "crisis," what they're worried about is that a big, scary, flashpoint event will happen -- like one or more of the eurozone countries defaulting on its debts -- causing investors to panic and triggering a massive banking shock.

As part of DC's 2011 editorial mandate, he returned to being Nightwing following the Flashpoint crossover event.

Immigration is the flashpoint issue.

It's an emotive, flashpoint issue.

In a massive crossover event called Flashpoint, in which the timeline of the DC Universe was altered, young Bruce Wayne was killed by a mugger in Crime Alley rather than his parents.

And when a black student tried to defy that tradition by sitting under the tree last September, it set off a series of events that have turned this town of 3,000 in central Louisiana's timber country into a flashpoint over the issue of racial bias in the criminal justice system.

That event was the flashpoint for the French Revolution.

Many fans felt this took the wind out of the sails of "Flashpoint": what difference did the events make if DC was going to reset the clock anyway?

The events that made Farmingville a flashpoint of white suburban anger, then a symbol of it, and finally, in many eyes, a caricature, are these: In September 2000, after years of complaints from homeowners about the sudden influx of Latino day laborers, two Mexican men were nearly beaten to death by attackers from outside the town.

May is when the torch is due to be taken through Tibet and to the summit of Everest, an event likely to act as a flashpoint for a more widespread uprising.