Similar words: flash in the pan, flash, flashy, flash back, point, flashlight, flash flood, points. Meaning: n. 1. point at which something is ready to blow up 2. the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air.
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1. The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre.
2. Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
3. Tension in the city is rapidly reaching flashpoint.
4. Hebron has been a flashpoint for years.
5. During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
6. Each encounter represents a potential flashpoint unless your dog is properly trained.
7. And striker David Kelly, whose sending-off was the flashpoint of the battle, will not be suspended for any League games.
8. Operation Flashpoint 2 scheduled for release this Summer.
9. It could become the next Balkan flashpoint.
10. The yuan has been a flashpoint in relations between China and old-line industrial powers(sentencedict.com), some of whom have complained that an undervalued yuan undercuts their exports.
11. Because the Taiwan Strait is a potential flashpoint for conflict, the area demands our constant attention.
12. Sheba Farms has long been a flashpoint for conflict in the region.
13. Wisconsin is the flashpoint for a national struggle over efforts to roll back pay and union rights of state and local government workers.
14. The biggest flashpoint has been over compensation[sentencedict.com], a hot-button political issue with Wall Street bonuses back on track and unemployment climbing over 10%.
15. Operation Flashpoint 2 is also set in a theatre of war quite different to those that were announced previously.
16. Because of the army's presence, the city is seen to be the flashpoint of the area.
17. The rancorous case has been a political and emotional flashpoint for the city and a barometer of race relations in New York.
18. With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
19. Facial recognition has the potential to be the next privacy flashpoint.
20. Not for the first time, this semi - annual ruling threatened to a flashpoint in US - China relations.
21. And over the years, the Copyright Clause has become a flashpoint for just such abuse.
22. Unbelievably, as you'd expect from the creators of the first Flashpoint.
23. Harry Reid's newly reported comments, from the 2008 campaign, that Obama could win because he was "light-skinned" and did not have a "Negro dialect" is only the latest flashpoint.
24. The missiles detonated second along their flight paths , high explosives heated to the flashpoint.
25. At the very least , the dispute has fallen down the flashpoint list.
26. After the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago this November, Observation Point Alpha, as the G.I.'s called this flashpoint, became an instant anachronism.
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