Sentence examples for flagship issues from inspiring English sources

The UK presidency of the G8 has a chance to tackle this side of the hunger coin in a week's time, when G8 leaders convene at Lough Erne on 17 June for a two-day meeting that will address the flagship issues of tax, trade and transparency.

The Christian right, with abortion and school prayer as its flagship issues, remains a vocal and intimidating political force, capable of getting evolution labelled a mere theory in Kansas, though not yet of legislating all the morality it thinks the nation needs.

There is no imperative for science to be included within policy-making and, because of this, flagship issues where the relationship begins to break down, as happened to some extent with the management of bovine TB in England, could set back the cause of science in government across a much wider horizon than just the immediate issue.

David Cameron made childhood obesity a flagship issue for his second term, putting officials in No 10 in charge, rather than the department of health.

Similarly, the issue that Mr. Lazio adopted as a flagship issue a month ago -- trying to force a ban on the use of so-called soft money for commercials -- seems to have won him more good will than actual support from voters.

And both can take advantage of the regional leadership of Kazakhstan, which has taken on border security as the flagship issue for its 2010 chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

In recent decades, the defense of usage standards has become a flagship issue for the cultural right: the people who are most vociferous about grammatical correctness tend to be those most dismissive of the political variety.

The group adopted a logo that cast the Republican Party's elephant as a piggy bank and described itself as a "grass-roots network of corporate lobbyists, decadent heiresses and Halliburton C.E.O.s". When President Bush made privatization of Social Security the flagship issue of his second term, the Billionaires, tired of waiting, put Social Security on eBay.

On Monday, Melania Trump took some time to address the flagship issue she vowed to champion as first lady.

He was a born-again Christian who made honesty the flagship issue of his presidential campaign, promising, "I will not tell a lie".

Humphrey's support of the U.S. role in Vietnam turned the former liberal champion into a super villain among the party's "new left" whose flagship issue was the U.S. egressing from Vietnam.