Sentence examples for two flashpoints from inspiring English sources

This plottiest part of the book amalgamates the Profumo affair and the viciously contested Smethwick byelection, two flashpoints from the end of the Harold Macmillan era.

There were two flashpoints in 1960s America where trans people joined fights against police oppression: at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco in 1966, documented in Susan Stryker's Screaming Queens, and more famously at New York's Stonewall Inn three years later.

The two flashpoints for the current controversy over "religious liberty" in the U.S. are the desire of some businesses not to serve some customers because of some perceived moral flaw in the customer and the desire of some religious nonprofits not to be "complicit" in the provision of contraception under Obamacare's Contraceptive Mandate.

Musa Qala is just one flashpoint in the wider Helmand province campaign, a coalition effort to dislodge the Taliban from the volatile province, largely led by British forces.

The two major flashpoints between the pair came at Monaco and Spa.

Or that the state with the second-lowest African-American unemployment rate was also the site of two separate flashpoints involving the death of unarmed black people last year?

The police battled with hundreds of Catholic rioters at two sectarian flashpoints in Northern Ireland, on the most volatile day of the traditional Protestant marching season.

Simon Tilford, of the Centre for European Reform thinktank, said the two big flashpoints for the union would be Italy's constitutional referendum and France's presidential election.

A8 European Observers in Mideast Security experts from the European Union have been posted at two Palestinian flashpoints to monitor efforts to maintain the fragile cease-fire between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government.

Today, the two main flashpoints of territorial sovereignty are the island chains of the Spratlys and the Paracels and the Scarborough Shoal.

There are two major flashpoints that divide treatment advocates and the public: 1) the need to hold sanctions or the threat of jail over someone's head in getting them to comply with treatment and 2) the need for total abstinence for people in treatment and recovery.