Sentence examples for a defining issue in from inspiring English sources

Fracking should be a defining issue in the general election.

In the United States, as in Europe, immigration was a defining issue in recent national elections.

Abortion has been a defining issue in America for nearly 50 years.

The war in Iraq, Mr. LaPadula said, is a defining issue in the presidential campaign.

Embryonic stem cell research has been a defining issue in Senate races in Arizona, Maryland and Minnesota.

And slavery, which she regards as a defining issue in matters of black identity, holds its own share of surprises.

Though the governor has a claim to acting on these principles, he has come to publicly embrace states' rights as a defining issue only in the past few years, a period when the 10th Amendment has been a rallying cry for many Tea Party supporters, libertarians and others who make up his party's conservative base.

Democrats signaled that they would fight the health proposals, and the clash could well become a defining issue for both parties in the 2012 elections.

Will same-sex marriage be a defining issue for the GOP in the coming election?

The party has lacked a defining issue such as the war in Iraq.

But Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.