Sentence examples for basic issue has been from inspiring English sources

A basic issue has been which of the roughly 42,000 recognized species of spiders to put on display.

Meanwhile, an even more basic issue has been raised in recent articles in The Washington Post and elsewhere: the real possibility that the disclosure of Ms. Plame's identity, while an abuse of power, may not have violated any law.

In all cases, the basic issue has been whether the environmental impacts of both digging up and burning a feedstock must be considered before permitting the continued or expanded extraction of the fuel or operation of the plant that burns it.

One of the most basic issues has been the question of whether individual SGN fibers are specified as either type I or type II prior to the arrival of their peripheral processes in the cochlear duct or if phenotype is established based on interactions within the target environment.

In a series of talks between senior negotiators, solutions to the basic issues have been discussed in deep detail.

"The current federation has done a lot of positive things," he said, "but I don't think the basic issues have been addressed".

The basic issues have been well aired: there are grave doubts about the need for a nuclear programme that might only save about 4% of the UK's carbon output, and then not until after 2020.

"I think the basic issues have been resolved," Safran said, adding that he hopes to start construction on the five-story development early next year.

Once these basic issues have been addressed, the impact of generic substitution on health and economic outcomes, analysed in the third article [ 4], would be negligible and its debate pointless.

Overall, these basic social issues have been polarized.

The basic issue involved has been the same as Watergate-whether the govt. has placed itself above its own laws.