Sentences with phrase «political flashpoint»

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

Last year Vélez was featured in the Whitney Biennial, and a version of this piece was a prominent part of his display (which referred to the path that a review he wrote, «White Privilege in Criticism,» took through social media over the course of a year in which NATO protests, outrage over the Trayvon Martin verdict, and other political flashpoints occurred.)

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.

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.

The anthem has become a political flashpoint in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese city where jeers...

But the issue is bound to become a political flashpoint.

But it similarly revives memories of a wild media / cultural / political flashpoint.

As Green notes, «in Minneapolis, as in districts across the nation, discipline policies are more than a political flashpoint.

«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.

It's hard to imagine a bigger socio - political flashpoint, post-Schiavo, than the Workplace Religious Freedom Act.