"bedrock issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the fundamental and important ideas, principles, or questions that an argument, discussion, or debate is based on. For example: "The bedrock issue here is whether or not the new policy will be beneficial for everyone involved."
He said that Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Senator John Kerry and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, all Massachusetts Democrats, had a litmus test on this bedrock issue.
It is this law — the one Mr. Perry, at least until recently, excoriated — that "is now clearly the bedrock issue" for the ethanol industry, said Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.
Mr. Obama won praise for his openness to those who disagreed with him, Mr. DeMoss said, but he stood firm in his support for abortion rights and cemented opposition from those for whom that is a bedrock issue.
It was a bit ironic that Melania Trump's naked photoshoot surfaced around the same time Donald Trump's plan to crack down on porn made headlines, but that same spread is now raising potentially explosive questions given a bedrock issue powering her husband's presidential campaign: his tough stance on immigration.
Let's turn to the bedrock issues on which the Hamilton Project is founded, and on which the Project has not budged.
Mr. Bauer said he would not back anyone for the nomination until he saw how their positions evolved on bedrock issues.
At issue immediately is whether that can be achieved through a shift in tactics and tone, or will instead require a deeper rethinking of the party's longtime positions on bedrock issues like guns and immigration.
He's rebelled over Heathrow and selling off forests but when it's come to bedrock issues like protecting the wealthy against the tax man and cutting the incomes of the poorest, he's been a model of Tory conformity.
She has performed well at mayoral hustings and in broadcast interviews so far, emphasising a distinctive Green approach to the bedrock issues of housing and transport and how these articulate a wider Green London agenda.
Most of the new members ran on platforms stressing an increase in parental influence over the schools, setting up a potential fault line on what has been one of the mayor's bedrock issues, education.
While Trump has taken conservative positions during the campaign, he has held a variety of less hard-line views over the years, including on such bedrock issues as abortion.
