Sentence examples for the flashpoints of from inspiring English sources

Reeves's career has tracked the flashpoints of recent economic history.

One of the flashpoints of the recent violence has been a traffic circle on the outskirts of Ramallah, near an Israeli army checkpoint.

The flashpoints of last fall are warming up again, from Gilo-Beit Jala to Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

With the presidential campaign turning personal and rancorous, especially after the flashpoints of a disappointing jobs report and the Wisconsin recall fight, there have been few moments of harmony between President Obama and Mitt Romney.

Even after gaining authority over parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, they could barely move about without encountering the flashpoints of Israeli roadblocks and Israeli settlements defended by Israeli troops.

It is no coincidence to those who know their history that the flashpoints of the uprising we are now witnessing began in a street in Hariqa, and exploded in Deraa.

And a dispute over how to handle inconvenient reality threatens to make Europe the flashpoint of a new financial crisis.

And strikes by workers in Los Angeles and elsewhere show that health coverage is the flashpoint of labor discord.

On the flashpoint of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Mr. Obama did little to impress his Muslim audience — and barely enough to calm the anxieties of some Israelis.

"Kashmir, it is feared," Ali writes in a note at the opening of the book, "may be the flashpoint of a nuclear war".

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