Sentences with phrase «flashpoints in»

While think tanks and analysts come up with maps featuring red climate migration «hot spots», parallel maps could be sketched out with flashpoints in destination countries, or the journey from the migrant's point of view.

Even though it's not nearly enough, getting 3 Flashpoints in the last few months has been pretty cool actually.

Additionally, Weekend Pass players will have the chance to face off against other players in PvP Warzones, or join up with friends and play through a couple of early faction - specific Flashpoints in the game, The Esseles and The Black Talon.

Parents» reasons for withdrawing their children from public schools are one of the major flashpoints in the school choice debate.

There was also the heavy presence of security officers in many flashpoints in the Jos metropolis, Plateau State capital, particularly at the Hill Station Junction, Old Bukuru Park and Ahmadu Bello Way.

Take one of the largest flashpoints in the annual budget ritual: K - 12 education spending.

He's also a veteran of the State University of New York system — and education policy is set to be among the many flashpoints in Albany this year.

One of the election flashpoints in Accra, Odododiodio Constituency erupted into violence Friday evening when supporters of National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) clashed at a 3FM parliamentary debate.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

The two flashpoints in the Christian «Christmas wars» are the tree and Santa Claus.

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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

With growth improving, there is unlikely to be a major flashpoint in the short term, in my view.

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.

The Seahawks attending Josh Allen's pro day is just the latest flashpoint in what could be a very interesting year of negotiating between Seattle and Russell Wilson.

The summer of 2009 would prove to be a flashpoint in the Rossoneri's future, as Ancelotti departed to Chelsea and the beloved Kaká to Real Madrid.

Bernardeschi's goal was a rare flashpoint in a sluggish opening quarter, the Italy Under - 21 international anticipating Matias Vecino's parried strike to slot in to an empty net.

There was a flashpoint in the final few minutes, when David Luiz was shown a straight red card when lunging in dangerously on Sead Kolasinac.

The series of Arab uprisings collectively known as the Arab Spring is a flashpoint in history — perhaps the biggest we've seen since the collapse of the Soviet bloc 20 years ago.

The seat will be filled in a special election that will likely be a flashpoint in the power struggle within the Senate.

The Senate is once again a key flashpoint in this year's down - ballot elections as Democrats seek to gain a majority eight years after losing control following a tumultuous, two - year term.

Though MTS opposition has bipartisan support, it's especially been a flashpoint in recent weeks for Democrats vying to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

At the time, the de Blasio administration said it had received $ 426 million in bonds year - to - date, including $ 140 million in bonds exceeding its fixed allocation (a flashpoint in the 2015 dispute).

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

Differences over extension of the so - called millionaires tax, without which the governor maintains the state can't close its $ 3.5 billion deficit, have emerged as an early flashpoint in budget talks.

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.

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.

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.

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 reintroduction of highway tolls is expected to be a flashpoint in the state's legislative session that begins this week.

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.

The cost of reducing emissions could be the first flashpoint in Warsaw.

Bloody Sunday, the latest of this director's studies of injustice and masculine pathology, tackles Northern Ireland's Troubles, which reached flashpoint in the early Seventies with the deaths of unarmed civil rights protesters at the hands of the British Army.

It's such a flashpoint in the UK and the US.

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.

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

If made in order, the proposal could be a major partisan flashpoint in next week's debate.

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

But it's not known how much class time students spend preparing for tests that became mandatory, starting in third grade, under the George W. Bush - era No Child Left Behind law and are a flashpoint in the debate over the Common Core academic standards.

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.

Another flashpoint in the Carver student protests was the racial makeup of the teaching staff.

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.