Sentence examples for flashpoint issue from inspiring English sources

Immigration is the flashpoint issue.

It's an emotive, flashpoint issue.

But he said there needed to be a debate on the constitutional article granting special status to the disputed Himalayan former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir because it is "of no benefit to the people [there]" and refused to comment on the flashpoint issue of rebuilding a Hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya.

Although it's not unprecedented for government scientists to be on opposite ends of a scientific debate, two contradictory press releases on a flashpoint issue like CFS would look odd, scientists say.

Today, thanks to lots of hard work and grassroots actions, the decision of whether to permit this pipeline -- a decision that Obama has acknowledged is his alone to make -- is a flashpoint issue not just for environmentalists but for anyone who believes our leaders should still be capable of making critical decisions based, not on some political calculus, but on right versus wrong.

It takes the battle-lines away from the big flashpoint issues and moves them into the everyday.

Just 43% of voters took part in Sunday's poll, a slightly lower mark than recent referendums when flashpoint issues such as immigration were on the ballot.

It brings us back to those subjective, flashpoint issues of style, taste and preference, and it forces people to ask themselves what they want out of a wine.

It seems there exists a set of people who cannot respond civilly to any post about certain flashpoint issues: race, gender and feminism, immigration, and religion; Islam in particular.

One of the flashpoint issues at Tyco was a payment former director Frank Walsh Jr. Frank Walsh Jr. received for helping to build the firm's acquisition of finance company CIT Group in 2001.

The damming and diversion of the Colorado River system have been flashpoint issues for the environmental movement in the American Southwest because of their impacts on the ecology and natural beauty of the river and its tributaries.