crucible

The NCA has highlighted a particular area that is a “crucible” for organised immigration crime: the crossing between Turkey and Bulgaria, which marks the EU’s external frontier.

At the time, Howard was a crucible of political activism.

In the crucible of Lebanon’s civil war, it emerged as an Iran-backed group of Shiite fighters — inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution — that aimed to protect the country’s marginalized Shiites and fight Israel’s occupation.

Westminster is a perpetually noisy place and so it should be - a crucible of argument and disagreement.

Forged in the crucible of violence, the criminalized and impoverished still call out for a true peace.