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Definition of flashpoint in English: flashpointnounˈflaʃpɔɪntˈflæʃpɔɪnt 1A place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up. the conflict reached a flashpoint last year Example sentencesExamples - There were flashpoints: most notably when the board tried to rubberstamp massive bonuses for the very people responsible for screwing the company up.
- I said, ‘Mr. President as long as there are checkpoints, there are flashpoints.’
- It's been a flashpoint for violence since the United States invaded.
- Yet what is true for us seems just as accurate when we look across the globe - particularly to critical international flashpoints.
- The frequency of incidents raises serious concern because the area is known as a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.
- One of the flashpoints is the precautionary approach.
- Although there are flashpoints of conflict all over the country there is no national policy on how to tackle them.
- The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
- The post-Cold War need for mobile, flexible forces to deal with threats and flashpoints that can flare up at a moment's notice has placed a new emphasis on airlift.
- Only Berlin continued to be a flashpoint until the superpowers reached an understanding about the two Germanies.
- The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
- His intervention has helped ensure that violent flashpoints have not spun out of control.
- In what was just the latest flashpoint in a campaign of sectarian violence, the terrified Catholics were ambushed by the baying mob.
- While the League of Ireland has never had a strong culture of violence, most of the flashpoints that have occurred have involved supporters from one or both of these clubs.
- Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
- Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
- Environmentalism has become one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the battle between red and blue America.
- Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
- The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
- Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
2Chemistry
The temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapour to ignite in air. this particular resin is very volatile and has a fairly low flashpoint Example sentencesExamples - They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
Definition of flashpoint in US English: flashpoint(also flash point) nounˈflaSHpointˈflæʃpɔɪnt 1A place, event, or time at which trouble, such as violence or anger, flares up. the flashpoint of the conflagration is just blocks away Example sentencesExamples - While the League of Ireland has never had a strong culture of violence, most of the flashpoints that have occurred have involved supporters from one or both of these clubs.
- I said, ‘Mr. President as long as there are checkpoints, there are flashpoints.’
- The frequency of incidents raises serious concern because the area is known as a possible flashpoint for regional conflict.
- Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
- The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
- The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
- In what was just the latest flashpoint in a campaign of sectarian violence, the terrified Catholics were ambushed by the baying mob.
- There were flashpoints: most notably when the board tried to rubberstamp massive bonuses for the very people responsible for screwing the company up.
- Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
- Yet what is true for us seems just as accurate when we look across the globe - particularly to critical international flashpoints.
- It's been a flashpoint for violence since the United States invaded.
- Although there are flashpoints of conflict all over the country there is no national policy on how to tackle them.
- Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
- One of the flashpoints is the precautionary approach.
- Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
- Environmentalism has become one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the battle between red and blue America.
- The post-Cold War need for mobile, flexible forces to deal with threats and flashpoints that can flare up at a moment's notice has placed a new emphasis on airlift.
- His intervention has helped ensure that violent flashpoints have not spun out of control.
- The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
- Only Berlin continued to be a flashpoint until the superpowers reached an understanding about the two Germanies.
2Chemistry
The temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air. Example sentencesExamples - They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
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