Sentence examples for centerpiece issue from inspiring English sources

The second is their choice of a centerpiece issue.

One exception was Dr. Dean, who has made health care a centerpiece issue and has increasingly turned to it now that the war in Iraq, which he opposed, is fading.

Returning to his centerpiece issue, campaign finance reform, Mr. McCain tried to stoke rebellion against Mr. Bush by pointing to the revelation that Sam Wyly, a wealthy Texas businessman, and his family had paid $2.5 million for advertisements criticizing Mr. McCain on the environment, an issue that also resonates among moderate voters.

OO Historic First: Congressional Climate Candidate makes climate a centerpiece issue in a democratic primary race for a Michigan house seat, reports Michael Mann at ClimateCrocks. "Renewed Energy for Michigan" is candidate Nancy Skinner's slogan.

Privatization has greatly harmed what many consider our finest public service -- for this reason it must be a centerpiece issue in how we talk about national security throughout the election year.

Continuing his aggressive coordination of communications strategy for the growing Democratic anti-corruption effort, the subject quickly became one of two centerpiece issues in the historic 2006 elections which retuned control of both houses of Congress to Democrats for the first time in a dozen years.

One such piece was Philip Roth's 40-plus-page story, "On the Air," the centerpiece of Issue 10, published in August 1970, which I bought for a dollar and a quarter at Tim's.

The centerpiece environmental issue in this election was energy -- polling for the Sierra Club on Monday and Tuesday showed that an unprecedented 50percentt of the voters said that energy issues were either the most important or one of the most important factors in determining their votes.

Mr. McKenna, the current president of the National Association of Attorneys General, made the issue the centerpiece of the group's meeting here last week.

The Social Democrats have made the issue the centerpiece of their campaign in a state election this month in Hesse.

Dr. Diffenbaugh said that Pakistan, too, is making the issue a centerpiece of its reports on the potential impacts of climate change.