The phrase "a dominating issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or prevailing problem that has a strong influence on a situation or discussion.
Example: "In the meeting, climate change emerged as a dominating issue that required immediate attention from all stakeholders."
Alternatives: "a prevailing concern" or "a major problem".
But it will not be a dominating issue in the run-up to polling day.
Taking action on climate change has become a dominating issue — globally, nationally, locally, and even here at MIT.
In New Mexico, immigration was a dominating issue in the race to succeed Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, who has held the seat for eight years.
Because most conditions are debilitating rather than lethal, safety is a dominating issue that determines the types of vectors that are acceptable.
The clear, dominating issue of recent months has surrounded golf's return to the Olympic Games.
The Fashoda conflict, an unsuccessful confrontation with Great Britain in the Sudan (1898), helped to undermine Faure's popularity, but the real dominating issue during his presidency was the Dreyfus Affair.
On October 11, Austria's far right Freedom Party FPOO) made record gains in a local government election in Vienna after a campaign dominated by issues relating to the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe.
While he will kick off with a rally celebrating by-election triumphs in Brent East and Leicester South, Hartlepool shows he cannot build a national campaign around Iraq. Crucially, it also suggests that, in a climate dominated by issues such as crime and terrorism, the old beards-and-sandals stereotype of woolly liberalism could be his Achilles' heel.
In a campaign dominated by issues of immigration, integration and identity, Rutte showed his willingness to stand up to the backlash from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who countered the diplomatic slight of the Turkish ministers by accusing the Dutch of permitting the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosnians.
It's a combination of problems: the journalistic and national security boys' network; the assumption that national security is a "hard" issue dominated by men; the reading of authority and intelligence into the male voice; and female (and particularly liberal female) insecurity and hesitancy to discuss anything on which we don't believe ourselves to be experts.
