Sentence examples for emphasizing issues that from inspiring English sources

The Iraq war is deeply unpopular with Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and taxes are a bête noire for many voters in New Hampshire, which has no state income tax, so Mrs. Clinton is emphasizing issues that will resonate in those two states.

Amy Walter, national editor of the Cook Political Report, said that while Clinton may currently be emphasizing issues that resonate with Democratic primary voters, there was no reason to think the words were not honestly come by, and the candidate did not seem to be straying outside her central political identity.

The Republican electorate in Iowa is dominated by conservative evangelicals, whose influence in G.O.P. politics has waned nationally but grown in Iowa, which means that the state has a warping effect on G.O.P. Presidential candidates: it forces them to spend a year emphasizing issues that appeal to a hundred thousand religious conservatives who represent 0.03percentnt of the American population.

In these, the Republicans emphasized issues that had been secondary concerns in the previous Bush administration, including missile defense and North Korea.

Hickenlooper emphasized issues that weren't predictably polarizing, spending his energy, for instance, on his battle against homelessness, which he made sure to wage not just with government money but also with privately raised funds, including coins dropped in symbolic parking meters around the city.

To win them over, he suggested, Republicans should emphasize issues that resonated with them at a time of insecurity, including government spending, debt, government bailouts and terrorism.

But he also presented some of his arguments in a new way to emphasize issues that polls show are important to voters as opinion surveys show the race tightening.

Both presidential campaigns are taking care to avoid that trap, emphasizing issues like education, health care and housing as much as, if not more than, immigration and related border issues.

Their efforts come hours after the Commission on Presidential Debates denied Univision's request to host a forum with the candidates that would emphasize issues like immigration and health care that rank high on Hispanic voters' list of concerns.

Several workers said they had crossed the picket line because they thought union leaders were emphasizing an issue that was more important to the leadership than to rank and file workers: the union's demand that all new employees join the union or, if they choose not to join, be required to pay union dues.

But they can have much the same effect by emphasizing "hot button" issues that may tend to help a particular candidate, or by simply turning out groups that tend to vote overwhelmingly for one party or the other.