The frenzied partisan horse-trading has glossed over what is arguably the central issue of any debate over long-term fiscal policy: the kind of role we expect the government to play in the nation's future.
Methodology was the central issue of the debate, although metaphysical questions also arose, particularly those concerning the actual reality of certain structures and forces imputed to the Universe by the new cosmological theories and observations.
What's more, you've left out what many regard as a central issue of the health care debate: repeal of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts health insurers from federal antitrust enforcement to some extent.
In respect to the central issues of the debate, Collins is struggling to articulate a materialist and empiricist metaphysics that can compete with the well developed dualist metaphysics that Clarke deploys.
Let's start by claiming that transport has been a central issue of European political and social debate post Second World War.
In the process, the voices of children became the driving force behind a movement that has succeeded in making peace the central issue of Colombia's ongoing political debate.
After a year in which gun violence prevention moved from a marginal, often-ignored policy debate to a central issue of the presidential campaign, gun control advocates were left stunned at the unexpected defeat of Clinton, who had made herself a champion of the movement.
We have got to stop talking about stay-at-home vs. working mothers as if it were some sort of debate, as if it were the central issue of parenting and families.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: "Labour's Alcohol Commission makes some constructive suggestions for debate, but it ducks the central issue of tackling the cost of alcohol sold at pocket money prices in Scotland.
Such connections often underlay the long-running debate inherited by the early moderns about the epistemic, eudaimonistic and ethical value of the emotions, a central issue of which is the degree to which we can govern our emotions.
