Sentences with phrase «flashpoint issues»

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.

Not exact matches

By allowing a «bathroom bill» in the special session of the most powerful Republican - controlled state, Abbott has placed a focus on Texas on an issue that has been a flashpoint in U.S. culture wars, analysts said.

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.

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.

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.

A new generation of American Jews are compelled by issues in their own backyard - like poverty and illiteracy - rather than the faraway flashpoint of Israel, the survey found.

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

But the issue is bound to become a political flashpoint.

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.

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 issue represented the latest political flashpoint between Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The issue became a particular flashpoint this year when the city planned to lay off more than 4,400 teachers.

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.

ComiXology's other sale is on the Flashpoint comics, including Flashpoint, Booster Gold, Legion of Doom, and more; all single issues are priced at 99 cents.

Flashpoint # 4 Writer: Geoff Johns Artists: Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope Cover Artists: Andy Kubert, Ivan Reis, and George Perez Publisher: DC With one issue left to go, I'm back to feeling the same as I felt when this even...

Fixed an issue where new characters created after the release of Curse of Osiris were not receiving the Flashpoint milestone.

«This has clearly become the environmental flashpoint, and in certain ways, the political flashpoint — there's no other issue that's gotten this many people out in the streets in years around here.

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

In order to avoid these issues and unnecessary stress on your child, take some precautions around certain flashpoints.