Sentences with phrase «flashpoints of»

Amid accelerating anti-government protests in Egypt, described as the largest uprising there in three decades, The Associated Press reported Thursday that scores of demonstrators massed outside the downtown Cairo offices of the country's lawyers» union, considered one of the flashpoints of unrest.

At a time when removing Confederate statues — literally white men on pedestals — are cultural flashpoints of whiteness and class, Garner and (Robinson) play with the size, texture, and scale of white monumentality itself, referencing both real and imagined figureheads of historical exclusion.

The operation, he added, would give serious attention to identified flashpoints of such clashes in the country.

We are particularly calling on Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to take the keen interest in the crisis like he has been over-sighting and attending to flashpoints of discontent and maladministration in the country.

Even in comparison to just the past few seasons it was not the best played match, nor the most exciting, the subplots were minimal for a game of this magnitude (Barca and Messi in good form, Real and Ronaldo struggling), and it was absent the explosive flashpoints of the Mourinho era.

This year's election season has provided unusually bright flashpoints of conflict and rhetoric.

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

Trade wars, shooting wars, political wars and corporate wars on honest pricing represent the four flashpoints of volatility...

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.

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.

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.

For a lighter moment, moderator Doug Muzzio goes to the favorite political / emotional flashpoint of 2013: the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

The public financing component, a debate that was already due to heat up in the post-budget legislative session, is expected to be a flashpoint of discussion this spring at a Capitol rocked by back - to - back corruption scandals.

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 flashpoint of the concern has been the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which connects the Illinois River to Lake Michigan.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

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.

On Oct 14, there will be a lecture titled «Elvis: Flashpoint of Fame» by the Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Amy Henderson beginning at 2 p.m..

A flashpoint of international contention in recent months, the race to lay claim to the Arctic's resources finally came to a head this past week when Greenland hosted a meeting between the five Arctic nations to resolve the dispute, The Guardian's Julian Borger reports.

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

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 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.

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.

I'm specifically referring to the kind of high - end training provided at schools such as Tribeca Flashpoint College.

The report cited once such expert, Allison Nixon of security firm Flashpoint, who said it could be a «loosely knit social circle of kids and young adults» looking to make some sort of statement.

Toyota's reliance on contract workers, which Unifor puts at 25 % of the company's workforce, is another flashpoint.

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.

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 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.

But here's the rub: These kerfuffles are precisely the sort of flashpoint that culminates in new regulation — regulation that applies to all businesses, not just titans like Facebook.

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.

This has resulted in «a catastrophic volume of global data loss,» because some victims end up paying off the wrong hackers, Flashpoint said in a blog post.

The arrests send a message that «even an informal information - sharing relationship with trusted Russian intelligence and law enforcement officers might be considered treason,» said Vitali Kremez, director of research at American security firm Flashpoint.

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

Another potential flashpoint is the proxy posting of FSBO listings on the MLS by licensed agents.

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.

«For the first time in many years, we are beginning to see levels of card fraud decreasing, providing a needed reprieve for exhausted consumers and financial organizations,» says Andrei Barysevich, Director of Eastern European Research and Analysis at digital security consulting firm Flashpoint.

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.

Choose your pick of potential flashpoints: rising U.S. interest rates, weakening loan covenants, or the boom in exchange traded funds.

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.

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.

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.

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

Verstappen was quick to take the blame for the flashpoint and took the courtesy of discussing it with Vettel post-race, an action that the German appreciated.

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.