Sentence examples for in the flashpoint from inspiring English sources

In the flashpoint city of Homs, locals said at least one child was arrested from a school in the wealthy Ghouta area.

The monitors' assessment on Tuesday that conditions in the flashpoint city of Homs were "reassuring" reinforced opposition fears that the team will be loathe to criticise the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The unprecedented scenes in the capital contrasted with those at the weekend in the flashpoint central city of Hama, which has become the focus of international attention after slipping out of government control.

But activists and residents in Syria said that violence continued overnight Wednesday, with two people reported killed in the flashpoint city of Homs after a night prayer, held only during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to sunset.

Labadie insists he did nothing wrong in the flashpoint with Henry, either, and the Dagenham managing director, Steve Thompson, is on record as saying that "on the balance of probability, we felt it was more of an accident than a deliberate act".

If the US steps up its regional naval presence, it seems probable that Australia will be prevailed upon further by the US to take part in joint exercises in the flashpoint of the South China Sea and there could be requests to accommodate more American military assets on Australian soil.

But in Britain the flashpoint in "Sensation" was instead a portrait by Marcus Harvey of Myra Hindley, convicted in the gruesome "moor murders" of youths in northwestern England during the 1960s.

In Cizre, the flashpoint of operations, columns of smoke rose from residential areas as a military helicopters and armoured vehicle scoured the area.

The Democrat sit-in can be the flashpoint for a new American Revolution.

In each denomination, the flashpoint is homosexuality, but there is another common denominator as well.

In one sense, the flashpoint nature of the battle presented both parties with an opportunity to energize their bases.