Sentences with phrase «become flashpoints»

Categorization, criticism, and commercial viability can become flashpoints both narrowing and widening...

How and why do certain links along these commodity chains become flashpoints of intense political struggle, as we have seen particularly with pipeline projects?

Facebook Live, originally perceived as the future of the company increasingly depending on video, became a flashpoint after several broadcasts of police brutality, rape, suicide, and murder.

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.

The competitive contest between Lipinski and Marie Newman, a first - time candidate who won 49.1 % of the primary voters, became a flashpoint for simmering tensions between the national Democratic Party's centrist and liberal wings, drawing months of national attention.

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.

Mr. Leech would run as an Independent candidate in 2008 and as a Wildrose Party candidate in 2012, during which his controversial comments would become a flashpoint of the campaign.

Christmas has become a flashpoint between two empires, the Kingdom of God and the religion of over-consumerism.

We must ensure that it does not become the flashpoint it has been in the past.

In the 21st century, a new issue has the potential to become a flashpoint between the world's most populous nations: their shared rivers.

The distinction in disability pensions was created by former governor David Paterson as a cost - saving measure in 2009, and has become a flashpoint in a broader feud between de Blasio and the city's police and fire unions — one that Cuomo has seized on as he and the mayor fight over a host of other issues.

John F. Kennedy International Airport, which is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, became the flashpoint for protests against the order Saturday after The New York Times described the ordeal of a former Army interpreter who was detained there and reports emerged of others detained at the airport.

East Harlem is also becoming a flashpoint over affordable housing.

Rep. Paul Ryan, whose Medicare overhaul proposal has become a flashpoint in the NY - 26 special election, sent out an «urgent» fundraising appeal this evening on behalf of the Republican contender, Assemblywoman Jane Corwin.

It was learnt that since 2015, Ukanafun LGA, once known for peace, had become a flashpoint, owing to conflicts and leadership tussles, resulting in the killings of citizens.

However, groups like New York Communities for Change say her opposition doesn't go far enough and it has become a flashpoint in the race.

These two were among 146 workers, mostly Italian and Jewish young women, who perished in a factory fire on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street - an event that became a flashpoint in the Progressive Era fight for workers» rights and an ongoing symbol of such efforts.

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

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.

Meredith's efforts quickly became a flashpoint in the Civil Rights movement with the eyes of the world focused on Oxford, Mississippi.

I mmigrant education has become a flashpoint for discussion across the country.

The Wisconsin reforms quickly became a flashpoint, however.

CCSA provided the following response to the Los Angeles Times article «Retiree benefits become a flashpoint in the battle between charters and traditional schools.»

One approach used in teaching math, Discovery Learning, has become a flashpoint for anyone concerned with math education in Canada.

The possibility of such a lawsuit became a flashpoint in the campaign for Amendment 66, the $ 950 million education finance measure strongly supported by the CEA.

The guardian program became a flashpoint for Democrats, students and teachers, many of whom opposed the plan.

Still, the evaluation system has become a flashpoint, with critics pointing to the test scores as one problem with the Teacher Excellence Initiative.

Those are the real reasons data matters in education, although its use has become a flashpoint in many districts across the country.

Scott Borgerson has claimed that the U.S. has to take the lead in addressing resource claims in the Arctic lest the region become a flashpoint for resource wars.

Indeed, the pace of globalization among American law schools has become a flashpoint for institutional competition, with numerous institutions jockeying to lay claim to leadership in this arena.5 Not surprisingly, the case for globalization has spawned a variety of explicit proposals for curricular reform.6 These include proposals for both significantly expanding transnationally focused upper - level electives7 and incorporating transnational legal issues into the traditional domestic curriculum, 8 including first - year programs.9

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weighs in on NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's controversial kneeling during the national anthem, it's clear the intersection of race and sports has become a flashpoint in the national discourse.

That bitterness underlies what became a flashpoint leading to Ontario criminal lawyers» eight - month boycott of legal aid in 2009.

It's not every day that investigative journalists discover their work was cited in a controversial warrant application that has become a flashpoint of partisan conflict in the US.

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The NLRB ruling, involving the Teamsters Union and waste recycler Browning - Ferris Industries, has become a highly politicized flashpoint between those who would like to expand the employment rights of the three million contract workers upon which the economy increasingly depends, and business owners who object to the increasing regulation of their affairs.

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced he's rejected TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, capping a seven - year saga that became an environmental flashpoint in both Canada and the United States.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal has become a political flashpoint because Republican President Donald Trump vowed last year as a candidate to block it and because of his frequent sharp criticism of news network CNN, owned by Time Warner, including in a new tweet on Wednesday.

A strange story for our data - saturated times: a social network for joggers has become the latest geopolitical flashpoint after it intentionally dumped a huge database of popular running and cycling routes online.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

Once the political donation news broke in July 2010 and became a political flashpoint, the two brands took different paths: while Amazon went on to climb modestly from 53 to its current 56 score, Target's score fell for more than three months, from 53 down to 44 at the end of October.

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.

The issue has become a political flashpoint in a presidential election year, and the lawsuit by attorneys general from Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida and Texas was certain to keep it prominent.

An annual professional golf tournament near Binghamton became an unlikely flashpoint today during a tense debate in the state Senate over a portion of the state's $ 168.5 billion budget plan.

But the issue is bound to become a political flashpoint.

It's unclear whether Republicans in the narrowly divided state Senate will back the provision, given the flashpoint gun control has become for their upstate base.

Obviously since then Clegg has apologised, and it became such a flashpoint for Lib Dem voters that possibly it should have been.»

The homelessness issue had already become a political and emotional flashpoint for the de Blasio administration, after months of negative coverage in the tabloids and downward - creeping poll numbers.

But New York City has, by far, been the central focus of Mr. Cuomo's rhetoric around homelessness, an issue that has become yet another flashpoint in the long - running feud between Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio, both Democrats.

The Astoria - based Museum of the Moving Image said it shut down the 24/7 webcam project Friday morning because the installation had become a «flashpoint of violence.»

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.