The phrase "eminent issue" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a problem or situation that is urgent, important, and likely to have a far-reaching impact. For example, "Climate change is an eminent issue that must be addressed before it is too late."
The pre-eminent issue in Texas for Enron was electric deregulation.
We recognise that environmental degradation, not conflict between competing ideological blocs, is the pre-eminent issue which unites the wealthy and the developing world in common peril.
It has, however, risen in importance as wage growth — why it has been slow, and when that might change — has emerged as a pre-eminent issue in Washington and on Wall Street.
Managerial issues matter, but the pre-eminent issue is having a political leadership at the very top -- including the attorney general and Congressional overseers -- that supports openness, objectivity and a service mentality toward our citizens.
Some very senior Labour figures privately contend that the coalition has made such terrible mistakes over the NHS that it could rival the economy as the pre-eminent issue for the voters at the next election.
But Mr. Bush's speech came at a time when Republicans are intent on establishing their record on national security as the pre-eminent issue in the 2006 midterm elections, and when the president is facing questions from members of both parties about a secret eavesdropping program that he describes as pivotal to the war on terrorism.
Mr. Rove sharply criticized Democrats for their opposition to tax cuts and Mr. Bush's Supreme Court nominations, but he left little doubt that once again - as has been the case in both national elections since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - that he was intent on making national security the pre-eminent issue in 2006.
And his position on the pre-eminent issue for the island ― what to do about its debt ― creates problems as well.
The growing divide between the wealthy and everyone else is one of the pre-eminent issues of the 2016 presidential election.
As for 2006 in the Garden State, the Amazing Kreskin predicts that the eminent domain issue will rise to the top of the political agenda.
