flashpoint, finger-pointing, sub-terminal

Not Everyone Is Cheering Fed's New Role

The financial-regulation plan envisions the Fed as the most powerful overseer of the U.S. financial system. But that approach is becoming one of the plan's biggest flashpoints.

Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing By ANDREW MARTIN

Biofuels are fast becoming a new flash point in global diplomacy, putting pressure on Western politicians.

A NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES.; THE PASSENGER AGENTS VIRTUALLY ...'l be committee will meet swain to say to decide upon rates between intermediate or sub-terminal points. Two sub- were appointed to 13x these rates. ...August 26, 1882




sub·ter·mi·nal (sŭb-tûr'mə-nəl)

adj.

Located or occurring near an end.

point the finger at sb
to accuse someone of being responsible for something bad that has happened:
Unhappy tourists have pointed the finger at unhelpful travel agents.

flashpoint (VIOLENCE), US ALSO flash point Show phonetics
noun [C]
a place or stage at which violence might be expected to begin:
Because of the army's presence, the city is seen to be the flashpoint of the area.