Sentences with phrase «about flashpoint»

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The funds, which together own 7.1 % of United, have said they support Munoz as CEO, but their doubts about United's pay policies and its plan to make him chairman could become a flashpoint as the long - running struggle over the airline's management develops.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

Greece was one of the early flashpoints for Germany's concern about the growing competition from China.

Any discussion about Asia these days inevitably touches on security — there are numerous flashpoints in the region, including the South China Sea and North Korea.

The details of the Chinese and Canadian markets may differ, but the dangers are the same: if officials are unable to pour cold water on smoldering housing costs, they will become a political flashpoint for the struggling poor and young people frustrated about not being able to own a home.

Younger Christians are weary of pitched cultural battles and are longing for the «real Jesus» — a Jesus who talks more about washing feet and feeding the poor than flashpoint issues like same - sex marriage and the sanctity of life.

The PISA rankings and the headlines they generate quickly became a flashpoint for policy makers concerned about international competitiveness.

What's more, his glorious, wild halo of hair is a flashpoint both for condescending white folk and for his fellow black students, some of whom ask him outright why he doesn't do something about it.

The Flash's solo movie may be titled Flashpoint, but fans don't need to worry about the movie's time travel «rebooting» the DCEU.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan played Thomas Wayne in Batman V Superman, and he's now dodging questions about his potential involvement in the Flashpoint movie.

In addition, they talked about how they got involved in The Flash movie, Flashpoint, working in the Hasbro writers room on projects like M.A.S.K. and Rom, and how they're currently writing and producing an adaptation of The Vacation Guide to the Solar System which is a science - based family adventure movie in the tone of Jurassic Park.

Peter Sollett)-- World Premiere Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell and Michael Shannon star in this true story about terminally ill New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester, whose 2005 legal battle to pass on her pension benefits to her domestic partner became a flashpoint for LGBT activism.

Gavin Hood)-- World Premiere Academy Award winner Helen Mirren stars alongside Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman and Iain Glen in this timely thriller about a terrorist - targeting drone mission that becomes a flashpoint when a civilian girl enters the kill zone.

Steven Spielberg's The Post, a drama about an historic flashpoint in American journalism, politics and feminism, is coming out in the midst of yet another flashpoint, and it's easy to watch this satisfying and well - crafted film as a beacon of hope.

Indeed, the role of subgroups has been a significant flashpoint in congressional debates about the future of the ESEA.

There's very little similar about these two districts, but, this week, administrators in both school systems agreed on one thing before a special commission of legislators charged with studying the state's infrastructure: facility and maintenance needs for K - 12 schools are reaching a flashpoint in North Carolina.

The New York education commissioner whose tenure was a flashpoint in the state's education wars is about to lead the nation through its own rocky education reforms.

You make some very good points about the homogeneity of our class, the flashpoint of discussing charged issues with adolescents, the different perspective that your background brings to your views on teaching and learning.

Immersing the reader in seventh - century Jerusalem, Makiya brings to life K'ab, a Jewish advisor to the fourth caliph of the Islamic empire, who converted to Islam without abandoning Judaism and taught Muslims about the Jewish holy sites, and whose son Ishraq, the novel's narrator, designed the Dome of the Rock, a flashpoint for religious and ethnic tensions ever since.

Though readers were skeptical about a giant reset of their favorite comics, Flashpoint was a thrilling story that saw the worst sides of our heroes take over.

Comics Flashpoint editor Eddie Berganza talks to USA Today about the midpoint of DC's big summer event series and how it might tie into the September relaunch: «They're starting...

The new Operation Flashpoint title has «broken from cover» today with Codemasters revealing a new video about the tech that powers the game — the EGO engine.

I'm not going to pretend that I know anything about Operation Flashpoint: Dragon rising because it seems like one of those games with a small but passionate and somewhat insane group of fans who would sneak into my house in the middle of the night and stab me in my sleep if I said anything that may offend them, so let's just stick to the facts on this one.

Instanced Flashpoint Being Literally Challenging & then People Complaining is mostly about Millennials who want things to be fed for them with Golden Spoon.

One of the few exceptions to this rule was 2009's Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising — a gratifying playground of war - porn which didn't neglect a constituency who cared about bullet drop.

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As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet The Truth about «Cultural Appropriation» With controversies over cultural appropriation regularly in the headlines, Kenan Malikargues that trying to control what culture artists can and can not use is bad news for political interaction and artistic imagination Power in Black and White In an America where the dividing line of race is now a cultural and artistic flashpoint, Jonathan T.D. Neil searches for a path beyond both pluralism and white privilege Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

But there's a self - seriousness about most law firm histories that invites a certain degree of mockery, whether it's the bulletin - style historical flashpoints («1947: John Smith retires.