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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Vukovar was one of the early flashpoints in the former Yugoslavia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certain key variables highlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpoints model.
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During these years race became the cultural flashpoint , and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
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Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder.
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With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.