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It is typically used to refer to the most important or central point of an issue or problem. Example: "The crux of the matter lies in the lack of communication between the departments." Alternatives include "essence" or "core issue."
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Crux
noun
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
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The crux of the speech was Cameron, in full John Wayne mode, giving the Conservative party the heartening news that he wants to win the next election, not form another coalition.
The length of the research period would enable us to really get to the crux of how their relationships with energy would evolve over this time.
Here's the crux from Shorten, who said Labor had supported a chaplaincy scheme "which would see trained welfare professionals being there to back up the work of our teachers to make sure our children are doing well".
The crux of the prosecution case is that Whelan knew that Fofana was connected to an organisation that would re-sell the tickets for profit, Kac said.
So the crux of the issue here is whether providing an opinion beneath an article is journalism.
Large numbers of people were persuaded by that message, that is the crux of it".
The hardest – or crux sections – on Dawn Wall also involve very poor slippery footholds where the climber needs to rely on the friction of rubber-soled shoes against the wall and tiny razor-sharp flakes for two finger tips.
This was the crux of the debate at the telecommunications conference in Dubai.
Indeed his personal tribute to Unscom's effectiveness is that in the past year he has dug his heels in so hard just as inspectors were closing in on his still largely hidden biological weapons complex.And that is now the crux of the issue.
Economists affect the lives of others, often substantially that is the crux of the matter.
And on the matter of causality which one might say is the crux of the debate they can do no better than argue that the evidence is mixed.But most of their letter can be described as an argument that, historically, high debt loads have been associated with various macroeconomic risks, and it is worth acting to minimise such risks.
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