flashpoint

ˈflæʃpɔɪnt
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Translation of flashpoint from English into Dutch

Noun

1.

conflict

moment when conflict becomes violent
breekpunt ontvlambaar punt escalatiepunt
  • The protest reached a flashpoint after the speech.Het protest bereikte een breekpunt na de toespraak.
2.

politics

place where political trouble may start
brandpunt nconflictgebied spanningsgebied
  • The border town is a known flashpoint.De grensstad is een bekend brandpunt.
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Synonyms and analogies of flashpoint in English

Examples of flashpoint in a sentence

  • Tensions rose to a flashpoint in the meeting.
  • The city became a flashpoint during the protests.
  • That region is a flashpoint for ethnic tensions.

Translations of "flashpoint" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Noun
brandhaardnm.

In fact it has been a flashpoint for a long time.

Kosovo is al lang een brandhaard.

brandpuntnn.

The conflict in the DRC is a flashpoint.

Het conflict in de DRC is een brandpunt.

breekpuntn.

The '80s, from 1980 on, is such a flashpoint.

De jaren 80, vanaf 1980 is zo'n breekpunt.

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flashpoint: Examples and translations in context

If we accepted that we would ourselves be creating a potential flashpoint there for the next hundred years.

Als wij daarmee zouden instemmen, zouden wijzelf een brandhaard voor de volgende honderd jaar creëren.

Think in flashpoint I maybe dated her back in high school?

Misschien dat ik in flashpoint met haar uitging op de middelbare school?

We insisted very clearly then on the protection of the fragile Arctic environment in a coherent way - on protection of this last wilderness, which is now an environmental flashpoint.

Wij hebben op een coherente manier duidelijk vastgehouden aan de bescherming van het kwetsbare Arctische milieu, aan de bescherming van deze laatste wilde natuur, die nu een ecologische breekpunt lijkt te worden.

Kosovo has long been a flashpoint.

Het is duidelijk dat Kosovo al lang een brandhaard is.

Though the conference was a religious forum, avoiding politics, the political implications of any discussion about the future of the Temple Mount, a location frequently described in mainstream media as a "flashpoint", bears dire political consequences.

De conferentie was een religieus forum, waar politiek gemeden werd. Elke discussie echter over de toekomst van de Tempelberg, een locatie die vaak wordt beschreven in de reguliere media als een 'brandhaard', heeft enorme politieke gevolgen.

FACE: This guy is never at the flashpoint of anything.

Hij staat nooit in de buurt van de brandhaard.

The conflict in the DRC is a flashpoint.

Het conflict in de DRC is een brandpunt.

But the biggest flashpoint this time is really the Southern European government bonds, where the massive buying frenzy earlier this year has clearly turned into a selling frenzy.

Maar de grootste brandhaard is dit keer toch wel echt het Zuid-Europese staatspapier, waar de massale koopgolf eerder dit jaar nu duidelijk in een verkoopgolf omslaat.

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