Sentence examples for but the basic issue from inspiring English sources

"But the basic issue is that a lot of these properties are zoned for retail.

The commercial potential of the Sinatra statue may be less obvious, but the basic issue is the same.

Much of what is occurring in Congress may be incomprehensible, but the basic issue — that the United States needs to increase the limit on its credit card or not be able to pay its bills — is understood.

But the basic issue remains unchanged: residuals, the amount of money that writers are paid for subsequent use of shows and films based on their scripts after the initial theatrical run or television broadcast.

The exact sequence of events that led the lawyers to ask to be excused remains classified, but the basic issue appears to have been that they felt that attorney-client secrecy had been compromised, and that the rules at Guantánamo presented them with insuperable ethical conflicts, keeping them, for example, from discussing the case with their client.

But the basic issue is what are you going to do with this vast low-wage economy and the collapse of public services.

But the basic issues are the same everywhere: ensuring the widest possible access to care; encouraging innovation to improve care and reduce costs; making sure that profit-making parts of the system do not sacrifice patient health to the corporate bottom line.

"You can have a debate about the ideology and you can dissect the economic arguments, but it cuts down to the basic issue that people have to look and say he is on our side, he is having a go for us, he is giving us a better society, a better vision, a better way of life than we have currently got".

But the questions go far beyond the basic issue of whether to allow the top two marginal income tax rates to rise.

But in one of its briefs for Intel, the firm wrote that the basic issue was property rights.

The basic issue is efficacy, not legality.