Sentences with phrase «flashpoint for»

Soaring home prices in the Bay Area also was a flashpoint for many, forcing residents to move farther inland, with some commuting to San Francisco from as far away as Sacramento, policy advocates said.

It's a flashpoint for many different things,» Peck said.

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

What amounts to a «reasonable time» will certainly be a flashpoint for dispute between the parties.

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.

It's also a potential flashpoint for global conflict as players ranging from the US to Canada to Russia to China vie for their slice of unfrozen resources.

The real tragedy would be if these out - of - state self - declared militias were able to leave the impression that Malheur is a flashpoint for conflict, when in fact it should be seen as an incredible opportunity for collaboration for both the ecology and the economy of the region.

It would not replace the IPCC process entirely, but it would offer a great deal more transparency to the subjective probability judgments that are the flashpoint for these debates.

As a whole, the works explore how local iterations of a culture might act as a fulcrum and flashpoint for the hopes and fears of people living in an increasingly, albeit asymmetrically, globalised world.

Their artworks reflect these dialogues and, with them, a promise of change to a region that is still a flashpoint for deep divides in American culture and politics.

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.

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

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

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

Such a change would also allow selective colleges to phase out racial preferences in admission, which have long been a flashpoint for racial conflict.

The film stands both as a great act of embedded journalism and as a flashpoint for post-9 / 11 terror policy, and for documentary values, period.

Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (whose next project is Flashpoint for DC / Warner Bros) make the most of a fairly middling script.

The flashpoint for that Civil War was an accidental explosion tangentially caused by the goofy superhero Speedball that resulted in the death of innocents and a crackdown by the government.

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.

Along with Thelma & Louise, Singleton's film was the second film of that summer to spark a flashpoint for cultural debate in the mainstream media.

A series of extended delays disrupt their plans to take possession of their infant daughter, and serve as a flashpoint for simmering tensions within the relationship.

Another flashpoint for this article was the author's invocation of the role choice and preferences play in the gender imbalance in math - intensive fields.

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

More than just humanitarian crises, resource scarcities can act as a flashpoint for regional or intrastate conflict.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, the 28 - year - old suspect in the Manhattan and Seaside Park bombings this weekend, lived in New Jersey with his family above their chicken restaurant that was a flashpoint for neighbors and had a «domestic incident» in his background.

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.

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.

The Florida shooting will be another flashpoint for gun - control activists when the legislature returns to Albany Feb. 28 and potentially in the fall elections.

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

In particular, the video cites Faso's «yes» vote on the health care reform bill, which has been a flashpoint for the left that is organizing against the Republican lawmaker.

Originally Walker, a Republican who has ignited a flashpoint for liberals and union advocates, was scheduled to appear at the New York City event on Nov. 1 last year, but the fundraiser was cancelled in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.

The presence of Chinese nationals in Africa's informal economies — displacing petty traders and artisanal gold miners at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder in places like Congo, Mozambique and Zambia — will continue to be a flashpoint for China - Africa relations, as will the volume of cheap Chinese goods moving through porous borders.

Anything DMV related generally serves as a flashpoint for the GOP, but in this case, the Republicans might do well to recall that their NYC mayoral candidate, Joe Lhota, not only endorsed the IDs - for - immigrants idea during the campaign last year, but also said he supported the concept of letting them get driver's licenses — though he didn't plan to push that in Albany, should he have managed to get elected.

By technically following Muslim tradition it removes a flashpoint for extremists to exploit.

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.

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 flashpoint for Neuberger's decidedly rare foray into dissenting solicitation appears to center on the board's rather intractable approach to the Company's strategic planning, particularly as applied to the firm's vaguely framed trajectory in the event 77 year old founder, president, CEO and COO Arthur Zafiropoulo withdraws from one or more key roles.

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.

The biggest flashpoint for the world's largest superpowers lies in the world of technology, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said.

Possible international flashpoints for China include North Korea, Taiwan and the South China Sea.

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

are potential flashpoints for violence.

Finally, climate disruption is already creating the dual problems of climate refugees and increasing flashpoints for conflict within and between nations.

Not exact matches

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.

Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

The potential for damage to American Indian sites and artifacts has been a flashpoint in a months - long protest over the pipeline, which is intended to carry crude from western North Dakota almost 1,200 miles to a shipping point in Patoka, Illinois.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

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.

Companies the world over are already poring over this flashpoint, hunting for novel ways to harness the public's engagement in such unplanned instances for profit.