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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

issue

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a central issue

▪ Education is a central issue for the government.

a controversial issue/topic/subject

▪ I tried to avoid controversial topics such as politics and religion.

a crucial issue

▪ The study of consumer behaviour is a crucial issue in marketing.

a fundamental issue

▪ This report raises a number of fundamental issues.

a key issue/question/point

▪ The environment became a key issue during the election.

a moral issue

▪ a debate on the moral issues surrounding the use of animals in medical research

a policy issue

▪ He rarely consulted him on general policy issues.

a political issue

▪ Health care has become a major political issue.

address a problem/question/issue etc

▪ Our products address the needs of real users.

clarify issues/a statement/matters etc

▪ Could you clarify one or two points for me?

▪ Reporters asked him to clarify his position say exactly what his beliefs are on welfare reform.

communiqué...issued

▪ A communiqué was issued by NATO Defence Ministers.

conservation measures/policies/issues etc

▪ It is important that nature conservation issues are taken into account.

contemporary issues (=subjects or problems that a lot of people are talking about)

▪ contemporary issues such as transport and pollution

contentious issue/area/subject etc

▪ Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.

deal with an issue/matter/question

▪ New laws were introduced to deal with the issue.

discuss the matter/issueformal (= discuss a subject or problem)

▪ The two leaders met to discuss the issue further.

divisive issue

▪ The strike was a divisive issue in the community.

dodge an issue/question

▪ Senator O'Brian skilfully dodged the crucial question.

draw up/issue guidelines

▪ The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients.

duck...issue

▪ The ruling body wanted to duck the issue of whether players had been cheating.

emotional issue

▪ Abortion is a very emotional issue.

emotive issue/subject/word etc

▪ Child abuse is an emotive subject.

environmental issues

▪ Environmental issues, such as cliff erosion and pollution, directly affect people’s lives.

ethical issues/questions/problems

▪ The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions.

evade...issue

▪ I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue.

fudge...issue

▪ He tried to fudge the issue by saying that he did not want to specify periods.

gender issues (=ideas and problems related to being male or female)

▪ Businesses seem to pay more attention to gender issues in senior positions.

give/issue an order

▪ Do not fire until I give the order.

grant/issue a licence

▪ He was granted his flying instructor’s licence.

issue a certificate (=officially provide one)

▪ The certificate will be issued upon payment of the fee.

issue a denial (=deny something publicly or officially)

▪ Immediately the government issued a denial of the rumours.

issue a description (=formally give a description of someone to the public)

▪ Police have issued a description of the two men they are looking for.

issue a permit

▪ Up to ten fishing permits are issued each day.

issue a warning (=officially warn people)

▪ The government issued a warning about eating raw eggs.

issue an apology (=make an official public apology)

▪ North Korea issued an official apology for the incident.

issued warrants

▪ The company issued warrants for 300,000 shares.

issued...decree

▪ The Emperor issued the decree repealing martial law.

issue/deliver an ultimatum (=officially give someone an ultimatum)

▪ The authorities issued an ultimatum to the students to end their protest or face arrest.

issued...news release

▪ The University has issued a news release announcing the results of their experiments.

issued...proclamation

▪ The authorities issued a proclamation forbidding public meetings.

issued...warrant

▪ The magistrate issued a warrant for his arrest.

issued...writ

▪ He issued a writ against the newspaper.

issue/release/put out a statement (=give a written statement to newspapers, TV etc)

▪ The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a short statement saying the meeting was ‘useful’.

issue...summons

▪ The judge must issue a summons.

live issue

▪ Drink-driving is still very much a live issue.

make/issue a threat

▪ Neighbours say that they heard Gardiner make threats against his wife.

make/issue an announcement

▪ The next day an announcement was issued to staff, saying the company would be closing.

▪ The government issued an announcement saying that it was not prepared to negotiate with terrorists.

make/issue/launch an appeal

▪ Detectives are making an urgent appeal for information.

▪ The hospital has launched an appeal to raise money for new equipment.

pocketbook issues (=that concern money)

▪ Older voters are most concerned about pocketbook issues .

resolve an issue/matter/question

▪ Has the issue been resolved yet?

rights issue

side issue

▪ The tax proposal is really a side issue with us.

skirted around...issues

▪ a disappointing speech that skirted around all the main issues

substantive matters/issues

▪ The State Department reported that substantive discussions had taken place with Beijing.

tackle a problem/issue/question

▪ The government has failed to tackle the problem of youth crime.

the date of publication/issue/departure etcformal

▪ The insurance will only cover costs incurred on or after the date of departure.

topical subject/issue/theme etc

▪ a new TV comedy dealing with topical issues

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

▪ The gum on the back of each of the bigger special issues, such as the Christmas stamps, is worth 14.5 calories.

▪ Multinational firms be-come a big issue.

▪ What can ethnography tell us about the big issues?

▪ That was two years before it became a big civil rights issue.

▪ The big issue that morning was whether to release feeding stuff from the mills for distribution to the farms.

▪ What is worse, big issues never stay settled.

▪ Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder, they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues.

▪ Trust will be a big, big issue in the campaign.

central

▪ We here came to a central issue in all our discussions.

▪ As in my other books, I have used interviews with individuals to explore and illustrate the central issues.

▪ Drug revelations aside, the claims of exuberant youth versus wily experience will be a central issue.

▪ The problem called by Mead the central issue of every human society arose: what to do with the males.

▪ The central issue here is the assumptions about future agricultural technology which are made when assessing tolerable soil losses.

▪ This identity fear is also the central issue I see working with executives contemplating merging or selling their companies and executive succession.

▪ But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment.

▪ Balancing the budget is important, but it is not the central issue.

complex

▪ It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue.

▪ Television generally simplifies complex issues by using specific and dramatic examples to explain a topic.

▪ The results of this investigation should help to clarify some of the complex issues involved in the debate on gender and schooling.

▪ Managing creativity has always been a complex issue.

▪ There are a number of complex issues bound up with this particular matter, ontological and epistemological, practical as well as theoretical.

▪ Reyes Heroles is well-respected for his ability to quickly grasp complex issues.

▪ This is a particularly complex issue, largely beyond the scope of this book.

▪ That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.

contentious

▪ Outside the state apparatuses public opinion was becoming increasingly polarized over the contentious issue of greater state powers.

▪ He was intimately involved with many of the most contentious issues in the three years of design and construction.

▪ Axworthy pointed to other contentious issues between the two neighbors that require resolution.

▪ The most contentious issue in the early days of the second session was the collegiality of bishops.

▪ Hardly ever, except perhaps when focusing on especially contentious and critical issues.

▪ The most contentious planning issue was perhaps the question of retailing.

▪ With so much hype surrounding the Internet and its potential for commercial opportunities, market research has been a contentious issue.

current

▪ By now, probably half the small ads in the current issue had been placed by aliens.

▪ It organises seminars and educational programmes on a wide range of current issues.

▪ What do you think is the most important current issue in fishkeeping?

▪ I still have a copy of Spring 1931 Nonesuch - a much more lighthearted effort than your current issue.

▪ Students love Streetwise, especially because of the current issues.

▪ Back to nursing events are not new but are a valuable means of locating nurses and interesting them in current health issues.

▪ In addition, the automated check-in facility will alert readers to current issues of periodicals as soon as they are processed.

▪ In the current situation many issues as yet remain unresolved and we do not have all the answers.

economic

▪ Candidates are therefore required to display a knowledge of business practice and an ability to discuss commercial and economic issues.

▪ The study of wider social, economic and organisational issues in health care is a major component.

▪ Coleridge insisted on the interdependence of economic issues and social, moral, and religious concerns.

▪ Other crucial factors are the distribution of social and economic benefits and issues of accountability.

▪ The national summarizes complex social and economic issues where the sources of fury are more obvious.

▪ The participating States stress that the Economic Forum remains the main venue for discussion of economic dimension issues.

environmental

▪ The region's indigenous peoples demand that they be included in discussion about environmental issues and development.

▪ The league tabulated votes on 12 key environmental issues in the House and 14 in the Senate.

▪ He is developing a company called Earthspeak Productions to produce television programmes on all types of environmental issues.

▪ Perhaps it is not reasonable to expect news reporters to sort fact from fiction when complex environmental issues are at stake.

▪ Accordingly attention is now turned towards environmental issues in the countryside, beginning with recreation.

▪ The lawsuit asks a judge to halt the project until environmental issues are sorted out.

▪ But we're still making much heavier going of getting to grips with these and many other environmental issues than seems justified.

▪ He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates, particularly on environmental issues.

ethical

▪ Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues?

▪ The ethical issue is on the table now.

▪ New Genetics, New Food New technology is already raising ethical issues for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

▪ Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.

▪ Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues.

▪ Two, can you come up with some moral principle, some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?

▪ It was not asked to recommend whether hunting should be banned, or to consider moral or ethical issues.

▪ But none of this alters the ethical issue and the consequent injustice done in 1985.

important

▪ Let's concentrate on the important, serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer.

▪ Perhaps the most important issue, however, is the possibility of causing curriculum backwash.

▪ As futuristic as the concept seems, it addresses here and now one of the most important issues in multimedia development.

▪ The most important issue was the injustice and violence of the actual verdict.

▪ Debates over important issues, from nuclear weapons to public ownership, have been settled by manipulation rather than persuasion.

▪ It didn't matter that all of the important issues were being ignored.

▪ However, it's a very important issue and must be addressed properly.

▪ More fundamentally, this preoccupation with numerical aspects may draw attention away from important issues that are more difficult to quantify.

key

▪ In assessing the suitability of any credit insurance underwriter, companies must be satisfied with a number of key issues.

▪ The diplomats said problems along the Southwest border will be among the key issues discussed by Bush and Fox at the summit.

▪ It is, in fact, the amount and type of fat in the diet that is the key issue.

▪ Traffic, noise and wildlife will be key issues, Collinsworth said.

▪ Thus the key issue is one of trust.

▪ There are a variety of designs and sizes, and ergonomists seem to feel that size is one of the key issues.

▪ The reasons for selling can vary enormously and will affect what the vendor sees as the key issues.

▪ Everyone was well prepared and focused on the key issues.

late

▪ The latest issue of the San Francisco magazine Might includes instructions for bathroom attendants who want to boost their tips.

▪ Company magazine backs a campaign and petition to keep all brands of the Pill available free on prescription in its latest issue.

▪ J., who reported their results in the latest issue of the journal Science.

main

▪ He argues that the main issue is not being addressed.

▪ But the main issue is that this could be fatal.

▪ It is true that some opponents of the Government saw rearmament as the main issue - notably Churchill.

▪ One of the main issues today is the future of young people.

▪ The November campaign was, if anything, a bit too earnest, with education the main issue.

▪ The main issue, they say, is safety.

▪ Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues.

▪ The main issue of interest to Catholic school headteachers and staff was the evaluation of the Catholic school.

major

▪ But it's becoming a major issue as landfill sites fill up.

▪ Observers had predicted that regardless of the winner in the special election, the council would be divided 3-2 on major issues.

▪ Technology transfer was also recognized as a major issue.

▪ Does the political leadership act with unanimity on all major issues? 2.

▪ Two major theoretical issues underlie the reality of health care provision for older people.

▪ Morale would be a major issue, and Steve was known for his strong interest in people.

▪ A major issue in hypermedia, however, is the danger of users getting lost among the complex network of multimedia nodes.

▪ There is also agreement about many major issues which need to be addressed.

other

▪ For the while the war went on. Other issues and events now came to complicate events.

▪ Thus while the original concern was not dealt with, other issues which had been raised earlier were.

▪ History of the share capital including details of any bonus, rights or other issues. 11.

▪ These and other similarly familiar issues are examined in chapter 4 in the light of changing international circumstance.

▪ Social workers need to weigh up its importance alongside other issues where they may have a greater contribution.

▪ However, there are a number of other issues to consider in this context 1.

▪ Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues.

▪ A number of questions are opened up concerning rights, obligations and other kinship issues.

political

▪ It is not a political issue about women sharing a function hitherto assigned to men.

▪ And his family is deeply unhappy and divided over political and social issues of the day.

▪ The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue.

▪ Thus it can be the grounds for greater tolerance and wiser value judgments about normative political issues.

▪ As part of this study, we listened at length to adolescent schoolchildren discussing political issues.

▪ Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.

▪ It became ever more difficult to prevent public discussion of political issues.

▪ If nothing else, Amlee points out, the recall showed that in Tucson, water is a very political issue.

real

▪ At the very least, it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history.

▪ The real issue for Columbus was the size of the sea, not the shape of the Earth.

▪ Clearly they each believed there was a real issue, and that the other was intelligent enough to pursue it.

▪ In that crisis, was Bizerta the real issue, or was it mutually wounded pride?

▪ More importantly, it was regarded as a distraction from the real issues of environment and development.

▪ The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.

▪ But there is a real issue: in whose custodial territory does software fall?

▪ But he was avoiding the real issue, and he knew it.

sensitive

▪ This is a sensitive issue on which many wax indignant.

▪ The development programme is also a sensitive issue.

▪ Weight remains a sensitive issue for Engler, who is constantly fighting a sometimes serious battle of the bulge.

▪ And being able to discuss sensitive issues with strangers while retaining a comfortable degree of anonymity often makes for startlingly intimate communication.

▪ Encourage employees to adopt a problem-solving attitude when discussing sensitive issues.

▪ How can teachers be supported to help them deal with sensitive issues?

▪ This has emerged as a sensitive issue because it involves the Red Cross, which normally conducts the visits.

social

▪ In most modern societies, parties have key positions on economic and social issues or on constitutional matters.

▪ In college I became more conscious of social issues, and that expanded at law school.

▪ It helps me relax after a hard day's rapping about controversial political and social issues.

▪ A separate report on social issues, by the Labatt Anderson consulting firm, is expected to be issued later this year.

▪ Environmental reporting emphasizes individual action rather than underlying social forces and issues.

▪ The 1980s were a decade in which many social issues came to the fore.

▪ Those are the kinds of broader social issues raised in the articles in this Section of the Reader.

▪ On high-profile Republican social issues, Forbes tends to adopt a libertarian respect for privacy.

wide

▪ It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues.

▪ A wide range of issues determine how a neighborhood fares -- location, school district, income levels and even airport noise.

▪ Spending resources before financial deadlines has come to dominate the administration of Partnerships and Programme Authorities, instead of wider strategic issues.

▪ Over the past decade, he has made statements, often provocative, about a wide variety of issues.

▪ For them, wider issues are involved.

▪ But from where I stand, it is the wider issue of transparency that really counts.

▪ But wider issues are at stake.

▪ The second innovation is more interesting and raises wider issues.

■ NOUN

policy

▪ The programme will conclude with a multi-country study of policy issues and policy processes in at least three of the countries studied.

▪ Roles of the Legislature Legislatures have always been structures in which policy issues are discussed and assessed.

▪ The third policy issue is of a nature more specific to management development.

▪ For many countries where free speech is alien, the Internet presents interesting problems and policy issues.

▪ With the current economics of nuclear power, this should prove to be a relatively straight forward policy issue.

▪ Answer: many policy issues admit to no immediately-obvious solution.

▪ There may be important public policy issues which dictate that the implied terms as to quality should extend even to private sellers.

■ VERB

address

▪ Also, I wanted to address the issue in a celebratory way, to take the fear out of the issue.

▪ But with the significant exception of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, few prominent Republicans have addressed those issues in recent months.

▪ More recent evidence, whilst not addressing this issue directly, tends to suggest that this desired relationship is still important.

▪ You have to continually be pro-active to address issues of racism.

▪ We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind.

▪ Before exploring this suggestion further, it will be necessary to address certain issues that I have glossed over.

▪ The present arrangements for approving and monitoring private care don't address any of these issues.

avoid

▪ So he made a go of permanently avoiding the issue.

▪ They can avoid discussing the important issues by keeping us out of the debates.

▪ Mr Kundera was strongly attacked for his view, and Mr Duroselle appears to be avoiding the issue.

▪ But he was avoiding the real issue, and he knew it.

▪ Beccaria's attempt to avoid the issue while retaining the conception of tree will was, perhaps, asking for trouble.

▪ Instead, the agency now avoids guidelines on the issue altogether and simply states the lack of scientific evidence.

▪ This is not just avoiding violence - it is simply avoiding the issue.

▪ Rylander, whose re-election this year is opposed by Democrat Hector Uribe, avoided those issues.

become

▪ It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.

▪ Rather, personality and celebrity become the issues.

▪ But from then until 1917 it became an issue of major importance.

▪ In his role as conservative leader, Scott has become active in other issues on the Columbia campus.

▪ This became a central issue in opposition to new housing since population growth as such was something of a red-herring.

▪ In a backwards kind of way, it became the decisive issue in the race.

▪ In the latter case every change tends to become a pay issue and another bureaucratic burden on the organization.

▪ This became a national issue focussing on the proposed mining of gold on Croagh Patrick in Co.

consider

▪ It is perhaps particularly appropriate to consider tourism in an issue of the magazine whose theme is writers.

▪ It is appropriate here, however, to consider briefly the treatment issue of moderation goals.

▪ Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues?

▪ The justices today agreed to consider the issue in connection with two similar federal drug prosecutions.

▪ Court of Appeals judges considered the bias issue and also raised concerns about technical aspects of Jackson's ruling.

▪ He argues for the coordination of agencies involved in supporting young people and considers the major issues these agencies need to address.

▪ Or consider the issue of vacuous names, names that do not name anything.

deal

▪ Commentary articles deal with issues in, or arising from, research that are also of interest to readers outside research.

▪ So he says dealing with issues of race is unavoidable.

▪ It has partner organisations in the developing world dealing with the issue at grassroots level.

▪ Students therefore have developed their own methods of dealing with the issue.

▪ Thus while the original concern was not dealt with, other issues which had been raised earlier were.

▪ It deals with issues of humiliation, bitterness, pride and redemption.

▪ These plans could deal with general issues and advise on practice of specific relevance to particular Departments.

▪ On Friday, the network substituted different reruns for those weeks because each episode peripherally dealt with crime-related issues.

decide

▪ It would be deciding the issue in advance, if she took it.

▪ El Paso voters decided the issue only once, 10 years ago.

▪ But it was the horses which decided the issue, as Ramsay had calculated they would.

▪ Some teachers were aware that they could now contribute to decision-making but still saw the head as deciding all the issues.

▪ But late last month, Eckels said he wanted voters to have to decide the issue.

▪ A tribunal is given authority to decide upon a particular issue.

▪ The appeals court decides issues of law and not fact.

discuss

▪ I commend his outlook to the House when we discuss issues relating to the social charter.

▪ The city council met, discussed the issue, and eventually voted to go ahead.

▪ Konstantin Morozov, exchanged visits on Jan. 14 and 27-28, to discuss security issues and a future treaty on good-neighbourly relations.

▪ At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.

▪ Unfortunately, it arrived right after our Work Group has met and discussed issues related to its inclusion or exclusion.

▪ My purpose rather is to discuss the underlying issues in general terms and at a somewhat philosophic level.

▪ These are not the first videos to discuss health issues, but he believes they are the first by an independent source.

raise

▪ It will inevitably raise issues about the transparency and accountability of a political system that has changed little since the postwar settlement.

▪ And the license was denied, though not on the grounds we cited, because our argument raised constitutional issues.

▪ But the controversy released an avalanche of words and raised issues that are still being discussed by academics and journalists.

▪ The Bush proposal for annual testing raises other issues.

▪ The attacks raise several issues of policy.

▪ In their statements, these organizations contributed ideas and raised issues of concern for participating States to take into consideration.

▪ Readability of pictures Consideration of the readability of pictures immediately raises the issue of the intended audience.

▪ But it raises a more serious issue.

resolve

▪ The Profitboss will always investigate the complaint, putting personal time, effort and resource into resolving the issue.

▪ In theory, network operators could target consumers with advertising, but this would raise technical and privacy issues not easily resolved.

▪ The Conservative government resolved the issue by statute.

▪ It is by no means easy to resolve such issues, and we can provide no firm solutions here.

▪ We believe the key to customer satisfaction is to provide speedy access to those best placed to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

▪ Teachers can encourage children to resolve issues themselves and develop autonomy.

▪ The idea of putting warning labels on drinks packaging is a simplistic and ineffective attempt to resolve a complex issue.

▪ In the same way, the size of the PacTel vote provides an incentive for the company to resolve this issue.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hot issue/topic etc

▪ Aphid insecticide resistance-a hot topic for beet and potato growers as well as horticulturalists.

▪ Despite the ominous thunder of global war, the date on which to observe Thanksgiving was a hot issue.

▪ Friday, 29 years after he was slain by a single rifle shot, his assassination is once again a hot topic.

▪ Military service was a hot topic at Oxford in the mid-1950s, too.

▪ Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings.

▪ Salah had succeeded in creating a hot issue.

a thorny question/problem/issue etc

▪ In addition, sending encrypted data over international boundaries represents a thorny issue: it is still illegal in some countries.

▪ Melding the top managements also would be a thorny issue.

▪ None of these struck me as particularly penetrating answers to a thorny problem.

back issue/copy/number

▪ A little later Bacon appeared, walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers.

▪ Anyway, I thought you ought to know you have your reader back, and I enclose £4 for 4 back issues.

▪ Lifelong readers who kept the back issues piled in their attics renewed their subscriptions like clockwork at the five-year rate.

▪ Mackey had seen handbooks on guerrilla tactics, back issues of a racist magazine Guy published.

▪ My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s.

▪ Six issues cost $ 39, and new and back issues are available.

burning issue/question

▪ Another burning issue is unfair dismissal.

▪ But the burning question is: How many times a day do kids wander in looking to buy rolling papers?

▪ It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.

▪ Quality, of design and typography rather than editorial matter, is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned.

▪ The burning question is - how soon?

▪ The star trek is over for today, but the burning questions are still unanswered.

▪ Transmission has always been the burning issue for scientists interested in studying this epidemic.

cloud the issue/picture etc

▪ These comments should not be allowed to cloud the picture too much.

confuse the issue/matter/argument etc

▪ His reply was inpart denial of the criticisms, and inpart an attempt to change the issue or confuse the matter.

▪ Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.

▪ Perceptions, such as hers, distort the truth and confuse the issue.

▪ The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons, the Pope is infallible.

▪ The politicians, on the lookout for arguments to extend their authoritarianism, jumped at this opportunity to confuse the issue.

▪ This attempt to confuse the issue went unanswered, and Santa Anna continued his preparations to advance on the capital.

▪ This will only serve to confuse the issue.

force the issue

▪ What you are asking your tenants to do is reasonable, but you may decide not to force the issue.

▪ And he did; he forced the issue.

▪ At a minimum, they can force the issue back on to the political agenda and make Republicans publicly address the subject again.

▪ But I was too tired now to force the issue.

▪ He never tried to force the issue.

▪ If you attempt to force the issue, you are told that this was another one of your dumb ideas.

▪ In early spring, 1861, the new Confederate government decided to force the issue.

▪ Time was getting tight on both projects, so I had to force the issue with him.

fringe group/event/issue etc

▪ After the uproar created by Nicholas Tolstoy over the Cossack repatriations, the fringe groups had been taken very seriously.

▪ Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.

▪ One girl shared her story of a fringe group, which for ten years had dominated her life.

▪ The remaining 5 percent aligned themselves with fringe groups such as the Natural Law, Green and Libertarian parties.

▪ To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.

muddy the waters/the issue

sidestep a problem/issue/question

▪ But she sidesteps a question about her priorities in a time of limited funding.

the larger issues/question/problem/picture

▪ But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.

▪ Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.

▪ It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.

▪ Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.

▪ She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.

▪ That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.

▪ Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.

▪ You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.

the wider context/issues/picture etc

▪ As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.

▪ Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.

▪ It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.

▪ More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.

▪ That fact must be put in the wider context.

▪ The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.

▪ We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.

▪ What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?

vexed question/issue/problem etc

▪ A paradigm example of this is the vexed question of spatial visualisation.

▪ And there is another vexed question.

▪ I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.

▪ Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights.

▪ The vexed question has always been: Who should write the programs which control these machines?

▪ Then there is the vexed issue of paying for tax cuts.

▪ Until recently what was on the child's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question.

▪ Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a book dealing with environmental issues

▪ Genetic manipulation is a fairly topical issue these days.

▪ Global warming and youth crime are the key issues in the election campaign.

▪ the issue of a driver's license

▪ the issue of drugs in sports

▪ the immigration issue

▪ this week's issue of "Newsweek"

▪ We'll be looking at a broad range of important issues in this chapter.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Another key issue is the choosing of appropriate neural network architecture and paradigms to match applications.

▪ Chapters 9 and 10 deal with issues directly linked to scaling laws in chemistry and analytical devices.

▪ Election campaign A key issue during the campaign was taxation.

▪ In the grander sense, an issue basic to the progress of science.

▪ Mr Wolfowitz is viewed as a hawk on many defence issues.

▪ One of the issues in his last re- election campaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.

▪ So he says dealing with issues of race is unavoidable.

▪ The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

apology

▪ On Monday, Stanford athletic director Ted Leland issued the written apology in response to numerous complaints about the performance.

appeal

▪ He also issued an appeal to all citizens to participate in political liberalization and in the development of the country.

arrest

▪ Police have issued an arrest warrant for Mr de Michelis's former secretary, Barbara Ceolin.

▪ They also issued an arrest warrant for a fourth worker.

▪ Three people were arrested and warrants were issued for the arrest of other members of the group who were abroad.

▪ A judge in Seoul issued the arrest warrants after union leaders ignored three court orders this week to appear for questioning.

▪ A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

▪ What he said is, he refused or declined to issue an arrest warrant.

▪ A warrant was issued for his arrest. 90 jobs lost A children's clothes factory is to make 90 workers redundant.

▪ When a warrant was issued for his arrest, the Hue and Cry listed among his friends four headmen and an ex-headman.

bank

▪ Several goldsmiths developed into fully fledged banks and issued banknotes.

▪ There is a good boat and up to ten bank fishing permits are issued each day.

▪ For example, the manager of the Oldham branch of a clearing bank can not issue instructions to employees in the Huddersfield branch.

▪ How is it that banks issue certain types of Credit which they expect will never be drawn on?

▪ One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders' funds.

bill

▪ Yesterday the Department issued its student loans bill.

cards

▪ The truth is that neither applicant actually wants to issue Switch cards, though Barclays says it is prepared to consider it.

▪ Now more companies issue cards and many are willing to cut rates or waive annual fees to snare each others' customers.

▪ The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze.

▪ The U. S. Olympic Committee issued baseball-style trading cards.

▪ As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards.

▪ They created an administrative grill, issuing identity cards to families, partly to control them and partly to streamline tax collection.

▪ To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards, written in verse.

certificate

▪ On the day Wendy was to go home a woman came to issue a birth certificate for the baby.

▪ The government's gold and diamond office in Freetown will issue the certificates.

▪ The parties are under no contractual obligation to allow each other to make representations to the auditor before he issues his certificate.

▪ Firms issuing false certificates might be subject to lawsuits, but these are expensive.

▪ In view of the importance of the competences concerned, we will issue separate certificates for the units.

▪ These laboratories are then authorised to issue formal certificates and reports for specific types of measurement and tests.

▪ They issue certificates of deposits, often based on fictitious assets such as bogus gold mines.

court

▪ Magistrates made a commitment order against him and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.

▪ She said he had not complied with a court order, issued in late 1993, to pay her.

▪ The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.

▪ The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.

▪ Only 112 county court claims were issued in the week as opposed to around 1,000 the week before, she added.

▪ The court is expected to issue a decision in the case before the Fourth of July.

▪ Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons.

▪ The high court should issue a decision by July.

declaration

▪ Schafer could issue a state disaster declaration and request a Presidential Disaster Declaration as soon as Friday.

▪ Department of Agriculture could issue its own declaration.

▪ Instead, they issued the Potsdam Declaration, calling again for unconditional surrender on pain of great destruction.

decree

▪ Presidential decrees enacting reform Gorbachev used his emergency presidential powers to issue during October four decrees marking critical steps towards market reform.

▪ In Britain, Heath utilized the energy crisis to issue a decree in December imposing a three-day workweek on most industries.

▪ Nine days later, President Blaise Compaoré issued decrees bringing the Constitution into immediate effect, and dissolving the government.

▪ In December 1785 Joseph 11 issued an imperial decree limiting the number of Viennese lodges to three.

▪ The President could issue decrees which would be binding throughout the country.

▪ In Savoy as elsewhere, it was one thing to issue a decree and another to make it effective.

denial

▪ The Army has consistently issued official denials of involvement.

▪ Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of Inkatha, on June 9 issued a denial of the allegations.

document

▪ To help expatriates overcome differences in culture, their employers should issue them with briefing documents covering various points of concern.

▪ Nice refused to comment, beyond acknowledging that it had issued a confidential consultation document.

▪ The organising committee has also issued a tender document calling for designs for the mascot of the games.

government

▪ After all, the government issued those bonds in prior years.

▪ Yet the Mugabe government repeatedly issues public death threats against its foes.

▪ The government issued a ban on public demonstrations; the students defied it and began to boycott classes.

▪ Nobbs argues that the problem has been compounded because the government hasn't issued any planning advice to guide the industry.

▪ Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money.

▪ Will the Government issue clear guidance on which responsibilities will fall to health authorities and which to social services?

▪ To address that problem the government will still issue dollar-denominated figures alongside the indexes.

guidelines

▪ Age Concern believes that the Department of Health should develop a policy and issue national guidelines on the provision of such care.

▪ It is odd that these harsh criticisms were issued before the guidelines were completed and publicly declared.

▪ The Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union has issued guidelines to their 600,000 members telling them how to tackle the problem.

▪ The Centers for Disease Control will soon issue new guidelines to deal with emerging strains of vancomycin-resistant staph.

▪ The Inspectorate is considering issuing tighter guidelines on the matter.

▪ Beginning in 1980 the Agriculture and Health departments have issued dietary guidelines every five years, based on the latest scientific evidence.

▪ Well before then, I would hope that we can issue interim guidelines for comment.

▪ The interior ministry has issued guidelines and practical advice.

instruction

▪ Most preschool children are well able to issue instructions.

▪ Based on the reports, he said he issued immediate instructions.

▪ The State Committee's resolution was issued on Yeltsin's instruction.

▪ After issuing instructions to Edelstein, Clanahan, and Boyd, the President adjourned the meeting until noon.

▪ Our policy is that Information memoranda should be issued only on the instruction of the disposing entity.

▪ For example, the manager of the Oldham branch of a clearing bank can not issue instructions to employees in the Huddersfield branch.

▪ They will then issue instructions as to the action you should take.

invitation

▪ Once you have issued the invitation it is important to make sure that the photographers will be able to do their job.

▪ It was unclear who issued the invitation to Wynn.

▪ It will, however, be trespass if she had no authority to issue that invitation.

▪ She sent Talivaldis to the store for a large loaf of Wonder Bread and knocked on doors, issuing invitations.

▪ Nigel decided to leave things a few weeks then issue an invitation to dinner.

▪ To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards, written in verse.

key

▪ Every day we help clients-usually Fortune 500 types-do a better job in managing people, in resolving key people issues.

▪ That last point is a key issue for Grasso.

▪ The delivery of Central Arizona Project water was a key issue in the election.

letter

▪ Professional legal advice should be sought by the Firm before issuing such an engagement letter.

▪ An importer gets his own bank to guarantee payment by issuing a letter of credit.

▪ As there are no plans to examine, the council is not obliged to issue any formal letter of approval.

▪ The parent company has issued a legally-binding letter of support to the subsidiary.

licence

▪ It called on ministers to set up a firearms control board which would vet all applicants before issuing a guns licence.

▪ Less than four hours before the scheduled start, the local fire brigade refused to issue a safety licence for the arena.

note

▪ Two-and five-year Treasury notes are issued monthly.

notice

▪ Late yesterday, Fimbra issued a suspension notice preventing the company from taking any investments and freezing existing client funds.

▪ The authority may issue a second reminder notice, but it is under no obligation to do so.

▪ I carefully considered the information before me before deciding to issue the notice.

▪ However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.

▪ You will be issued with penalty notices and the amounts due will be shown on your self-assessment statements.

▪ If within two years of that warning there is a second inaccuracy in the return, Customs will issue a penalty notice.

order

▪ Some pretty quick action had taken place and she had no doubt at all as to who had been issuing orders.

▪ Maturity is important to a leader because leading is not simply showing the way or issuing orders.

▪ Given the value of experienced seamen in a war, has a navy ever issued orders forbidding it?

▪ Debes gave them an additional forty-five minutes, then issued the order.

▪ Creative people can be hostile to research, and your findings should be tactfully presented and not issued as orders.

▪ A judge issued a temporary restraining order.

▪ And they issued destruction orders against all the animals he kept there.

▪ At 12: 09 a. m., Calderon issued the execution order.

paper

▪ To do so, they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like.

▪ Disney will pay $ 2 billion in cash, and will raise the other $ 8 billion by issuing short-term commercial paper.

▪ Virani was able to issue more and more paper in order to finance bigger and bigger deals.

▪ Second, they lend the money provided by those savers to borrowers, who may issue a paper asset in return.

▪ B'Tselem has issued a policy paper opposing the reintroduction of physical interrogation techniques.

permit

▪ The county Department of Environmental Quality is slated to issue an air-quality permit decision sometime this month.

▪ Throughout all of Texas' 254 counties, only 150 black men and 13 black women have been issued permits.

▪ This is what I think -- that one or two inspectors were very reluctant to issue permits.

▪ Then the Park District flatly refused to issue them a permit.

police

▪ A statement issued by Staffordshire police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the sergeant's death.

▪ Recent statistics issued by the Metropolitan Police indicated that a quarter of all serious crimes in Greater London are committed by school-children.

policy

▪ It also issued a detailed policy statement.

▪ After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.

▪ They come into effect next month and we shall issue planning policy guidance later this month.

▪ According to the state Insurance Department, insurers accounting for 95 percent of the homeowners market no longer issue new policies.

▪ We have made that clear ever since 1989 when we issued our policy statement.

▪ The Council's power to issue policy recommendations under stage two has been in existence since the convergence decision in 1974.

▪ B'Tselem has issued a policy paper opposing the reintroduction of physical interrogation techniques.

press

▪ Then it canceled the mill anyway and issued a press release blaming the workers.

▪ Prescott could have done something easy, like hold a new conference or issue a press release.

▪ The Department of the Environment immediately issued a furious press release accusing the Chron of distorting the facts.

proclamation

▪ He issued proclamations and charters in his own name, and promoted his relatives to high office.

▪ In response, President Fillmore issued a proclamation asking citizens to cease interfering with law enforcement officers.

▪ Taylor refused compensation, to the amazement of the mandarins, who issued proclamations applauding the spirit of the Christians.

▪ On June 18, Herrera issued a proclamation to the people concerning the revolt of Parades and encouraging them to stand fast.

▪ But she had also issued a proclamation forbidding all preaching and teaching.

report

▪ A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

▪ Nearly a decade later, our educational system was no better off than it had been when the commission issued its report.

▪ Meanwhile, Bath were issuing a reminder that reports of their decline were a little premature.

▪ Officials said the panel will issue an initial report by Sept. 30, 1997.

▪ Accentuating their lack of agreement, Moscow and Stockholm issued separate reports on the case.

▪ Clinton also issued a federal report showing 65 percent of public schools have access to the Internet.

▪ Auditors normally issue a report which is a statement used as a preface to the financial statements of a company.

security

▪ Without the sale of company securities, other things being equal, the public sector would have had to issue government securities.

▪ Likewise, airlines issue those lists to security personnel at airports which allow only ticketed passengers beyond the security checkpoint.

▪ Rhone-Poulenc pioneered a technique for raising cash by issuing exotic securities which have the quality of both debt and equity.

▪ Banks are issuing a stream of securities backed by mortgages, credit-card receivables and other assets stripped off their balance sheets.

▪ As the civil servants are not party members, they have not been issued with security passes.

▪ If a listed bidder is proposing to issue its own securities as consideration under the scheme then listing particulars may be required.

share

▪ Many public companies have issued non-voting A ordinary shares.

▪ A stock price may shift if the firm issues additional shares.

▪ It requests that an authority for market purchases should not normally exceed 10 percent of the company's issued ordinary share capital.

▪ Tenneco plans to spin off its shipbuilding unit by issuing separately traded shares in a new shipbuilding company to Tenneco shareholders.

▪ Sometimes owners had to promise not to issue new shares for two more years.

▪ Disney plans to issue 155 million shares of new stock for Capital Cities shareholders.

▪ It required the full disclosure of the condition of any firm wishing to issue new shares.

▪ The number of shares in issue may be increased if shares are issued pursuant to the share option scheme. 2.

standard

▪ Gauges are issued as reference standards only.

▪ No such cost-benefit requirement exists when issuing health standards under the Clean Air Act, the court ruled.

▪ When issued, these standards must be applied to joined or repaired aquariums.

statement

▪ The statement issued by Mr Ismail Ayob also denied some aspects of the latest allegations against her.

▪ The statement was issued by leading bishops following an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod in Belgrade.

▪ A statement was issued finally repudiating the Nestorian position and affirming the Orthodox position.

▪ A statement issued by the U. S. Embassy gave no details of her medical condition Tuesday or any prognosis for her recovery.

▪ Mr Christie would say only that a club statement would be issued later.

▪ Coleman said in a statement that was issued Monday along with the report card.

▪ The statement was issued after Miss Pollard refused to publish a retraction.

summons

▪ The statement said that, having considered the application, the magistrates had refused to issue the summons.

▪ The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.

▪ Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons.

▪ Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons.

▪ It is still necessary to issue a summons for directions in an admiralty or medical negligence case.

threat

▪ Yet the Mugabe government repeatedly issues public death threats against its foes.

▪ The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.

▪ It was only by issuing rather unconvincing threats of his disapproval that Peggy could keep the girl in line.

▪ For one sweaty moment I was sure it would be Famlio, about to issue dire threats and promises.

▪ His favourite line of attack was to start talking about finding useful employment for Vincent, and to issue veiled threats.

ticket

▪ Chaplin's also issued railway tickets.

▪ They can be issued traffic and parking tickets, and the State Department can revoke their vehicle registration or license.

▪ But they had been issued with first class tickets.

▪ Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system.

▪ If I buy a bus ticket for two persons, I am issued separate tickets.

▪ The organiser of the chosen rally should issue a ticket to their event free of charge, in exchange for the voucher.

ultimatum

▪ And now he had issued an ultimatum.

visa

▪ The Interior Ministry has been tipped off about companies issuing fake visas.

▪ Under the agreement, two nominally private organizations were established to issue visas and represent the interests of the two governments.

warning

▪ It is, however, hard to make a recommendation to read this fine offering by Boyd without issuing a warning.

▪ In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.

▪ Police in Essex and Kent issued flood warnings for yesterday afternoon's high tide and further problems were expected later.

▪ Other companies issuing profit warnings or unexpectedly weak earnings included Hutchison Technology Inc., down 6 to 36 1 / 2.

▪ So for the moment nothing could be done beyond issuing a warning.

▪ Where a statement is found to be incorrect, Customs will issue a warning.

▪ Anyone who has encountered a skunk will know that before it fires its stinking spray it issues clear warnings of its intentions.

warrant

▪ They issued a warrant for his arrest, and that same night we took off for Colorado.

▪ Police have issued an arrest warrant for Mr de Michelis's former secretary, Barbara Ceolin.

▪ They also issued an arrest warrant for a fourth worker.

▪ A judge has now issued a warrant for his arrest.

▪ A judge in Seoul issued the arrest warrants after union leaders ignored three court orders this week to appear for questioning.

▪ She could not be issued with a warrant for her visit.

▪ What he said is, he refused or declined to issue an arrest warrant.

writ

▪ We then issued a writ and proceedings ensued.

▪ He issued a writ claiming damages for wrongful dismissal.

▪ They are expected to be issued with a writ tomorrow giving them two weeks to leave the premises.

▪ On 15 July 1987, the Woolwich issued a writ to recover the capital sum and interest thereon.

▪ The negotiations dragged on and in the end I was constrained to issue a writ.

▪ It libelled the plaintiff who issued a writ against the editor.

▪ It plans to issue a protective writ but is hoping to achieve a settlement.