The phrase "a clear cut issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or problem that is straightforward and unambiguous, making it easy to understand or resolve.
Example: "The decision to implement the new policy was a clear cut issue, as the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks."
Alternatives: "a straightforward matter" or "an unambiguous situation".
"It is such a clear cut issue," said Patrick Streeter, an elected councillor in the City of London Corporation, who has taken up the issue with the police.
Under the EU statutory approach, Newman and Chiasson would have been liable if they knew or should have known that the information was material non-public information (which itself was not a clear cut issue it seems for the court in Newman).
But the ballot initiative is by no means a clear cut issue because many opponents believe it will infringe upon personal liberties, further fuel the expansion of big government, hurt individuals making a living from the skins of trapped animals, and is part of a broader movement seeking to ban hunting.
I still have huge amounts left to learn, and it's by no means a clear-cut issue with easy answers.
The report suggests that immigration is not a clear-cut issue in which one side is right and the other wrong, but that there are both costs and benefits.
Public access is not a clear-cut issue, and the agency holds no official opinion of what towns should do, said Jane Stahl, the department's deputy commissioner for air, waste, and water.
As more notes follow, Alex becomes absorbed by the question of who is sending them: why, and how is a boy going to fly? Bullying is frequently not a clear-cut issue.
The legal verdict remains uncertain, but it should be evident that drug testing is not a clear-cut issue; it may assume a multiplicity of forms in a variety of contexts, and nothing is served by reducing the debate to a series of slogans.
It's by no means a clear-cut issue, but the debates suggested that huge individual successes are leaving smaller developers genuinely confident that digital distribution will enable them to move ahead without publishers in the future – a potentially huge shift for the gaming industry.
Upon the jury's return, Smith surprised them by announcing that Brownlee's counter-claim was being dropped; he said that there was no need to complicate the clear cut issue of "seduction or no seduction" with evidence about a conspiracy on the part of MacMillan and Caldwell.
"In a time machine going back three months, it was a really clear-cut issue and much easier to use," Probolsky said.
