Sentence examples for epic issues from inspiring English sources

During the 1970s and 1980s Labour was split on most epic issues, from continuing EU membership to nuclear disarmament and public ownership.

They are epic issues, demanding such dramatic solutions that it is easy to forget the gentler, quieter genre of design projects, which fulfill the old-fashioned objective of improving our quality of life.

Asked by a reporter to explain the rationale for the board's action, Mr. Hemmerdinger said, "The rationale is that you have made an issue of whether people get a free ride or not, and that pulled the focus off the really epic issues facing the M.T.A".

The first ad, called "Anthem" and meant to portray global warming as an epic issue akin to civil rights, is posted online and will start running on television on Wednesday.

I took it as a call to arms for the return of ambitious political plays about contemporary issues, epic in scope and innovative in form.

"What interests me most," Ms. McVerry said of Galsworthy's epic, "are the issues of people being trapped by class and by gender, and the whole theme of imprisonment".

Now we can add "the thickness of his own skin" to the epic list of issues on which Trump has changed or muddied his position.

In an epic news dump issued at 1 a.m. in Riyadh, Saudi state media announced that 18 Saudis have been arrested in connection with the incident.

He regarded the album as less like the "standard-issue epic metal" of the first album and more like "Evanescence's gothy metal-pop crossed with late-era Radiohead's fondness for electronic interference".

As the storyline was Jim Lee's first regular comic book work in nearly a decade, the series became #1 on the Diamond Comic Distributors sales chart for the first time since Batman #500 (October 1993) and Jason Todd's appearance laid the groundwork for writer Judd Winick's subsequent run as writer on Batman, with another multi-issue epic, "Under the Hood", which ran from Batman #637 650.

His work has been widely translated and is readily available in the West, but he is perhaps best known abroad for "Red Sorghum," an epic that takes on issues like the Japanese occupation, bandit culture and the harsh conditions in rural China, and which in 1987 was made into a movie directed by Zhang Yimou.