The basic issue is efficacy, not legality.
The basic issue, it seems to me, is one of compression versus expansion.
The basic issue involved has been the same as Watergate-whether the govt. has placed itself above its own laws.
The basic issue of selecting a life-changing experience is that the life in question continues to exist.
The basic issue with this performance of "Tristan und Isolde" was pretty elementary: Mr. Seiffert, it seemed, did not know the role well enough to sing it.
The basic issue for them is deciding what they want to do as a family now that they realize they cannot do everything.
"The basic issue is that when you have employees you should pay them, and you should tell your shareholders how much you pay them," said Mr. Blitzer.
The basic issue is simple: Did George Osborne, the Conservative's brash spokesman for economic affairs, solicit an $80,000 donation from the fabulously rich Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska?
"The basic issue is that the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal track," says Dean Maki, the chief United States economist at Barclays Capital.
The basic issue for Beijing was that public opinion in Hong Kong and mainland China was clearly shifting toward protecting him from the United States.
"The basic issue in these middle class schools is competition -- who has the biggest car, who is the best athlete, who is in the right group -- and students are under intense pressure, unlike the urban school where often the basic issue is just survival," Dr. Twemlow said.
