Sentences with phrase «became flash points»

Among other things, this incident became a flash point about the extent of First Amendment protections.

TransCanada pledged to seek another permit for its Keystone XL pipeline after the Obama administration rejected the project, ending a seven - year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

They've become a flash point in the ongoing controversy over adoption of the Common Core learning standards for students.

The bill, which is likely to become a flash point in the debate over the federal debt, would raise $ 40 billion worth in additional revenue, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Zarrab case has become a flash point in relations between Turkey and the U.S..

January 5, 2017 • Wyoming has become a flash point in the debate over whether federal public lands should be turned over to states.

Teacher benefits, once a sleepy question primarily of interest to actuaries, have become a flash point in the education debate.

When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation's second - largest school district.

Even that small move has become a flash point.

And it seemed that many did, for Kruger became a flash point, one of the artists old - school critics had in mind when they complained about the hectoring, lecturing turn they felt that art was taking.

Now that they seem a little drastic, but the agenda of the curator has become the flash point for the definition of contemporary art.

Mr. Cruz, Mr. Christie and Ms. Fiorina all alluded to a series of heavily edited videos produced by antiabortion activists that have become a flash point in efforts by congressional Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood.

Not exact matches

Despite scoring relatively high in accountability and transparency by nonprofit watchdogs, the foundation nonetheless became a flash - point in the 2016 election.

Tom refuses, responding instead that God can still deliver her at which point Cassy receives a revelatory insight — a plan that flashes through her mind and becomes the mechanism of her freedom through escape and Tom's through martyrdom.

An upset of Michigan scored some brownie points, but this was a strange team that flashed dramatic upside at the beginning and end and became unreliable in between.

In his rookie season, Hield is averaging 8.6 points per game on 36.4 percent shooting from downtown and has shown flashes of potentially becoming a dynamic perimeter scorer as his career progresses.

A decades - old method for tapping ancient reserves of natural gas has become the big environmental flash point of the moment, as Governor Cuomo is well aware.

«Manhunt» flashes between 1995, as Fitz becomes obsessed to the point of alienating his wife and kids, and 1997, when he is summoned back to the case to visit a wily Kaczynski (Paul Bettany) in prison and must try to persuade him to plead guilty rather than face trial.

The Dow fell more than 600 points in a few minutes in what became known as the «flash crash.»

It is exactly at this point where it becomes important to convert Flash - based legacy courses into open - source technology, HTML5, so that they become compatible with mobile devices.

The courses were old Flash and early Storyline courses, and I became impatient as I flipped through the traditional welcome page, then a formal learning objectives page followed by context setting page, an overview to the entire learning curriculum - at which point, I lost interest and jumped right to the course menu to figure out what was the core learning focus of the module!

It's not fast, but the sensations of speed are heightened by the short gearing, and right at the point you're about to change up — around 6000rpm — the 1.6 becomes harder - edged, more focused, encouraging you to hold on for every last rev, to see the green light flash, giving you the go - ahead to grab another gear.

The human figures have lost basic contours, to the point that their humanity is sometimes hard to identify; gone are the landscapes in which the figures move; the movement itself, which apparently repeats itself, has become more wild; the lines, structures and patterns change more rapidly; florescent - like red flashes appear, that call to mind the emergency, danger and alarm lights that permeate our world.

Science educators say they're increasingly worried that climate could become the same kind of flash point as evolution.

And in Snap's IPO filing, it described its philosophy, saying, «In the way that the flashing cursor became the starting point for most products on desktop computers, we believe that the camera screen will be the starting point for most products on smartphones.»