Sentence examples for highly emotive issue from inspiring English sources

Jerusalem is a highly emotive issue for Muslims, as it is among Jews.

Cheesley said giving patients access to drinking water was often a highly emotive issue, which families found particularly distressing.

Badger-culling is a highly emotive issue, no matter which side of the fence you find yourself.

In a statement, Atos said: "We fully respect people's right to peaceful protest and we understand this is a highly emotive issue.

He said that if the highly emotive issue of Jerusalem's status became the focal point of Israeli-Palestinian friction once more, "then I think the prospects for a serious, significant confrontation are high".

Yet the highly emotive issue of child abuse has, over recent years, led to a variety of unhealthy and draconian laws, the inflation of risk in society and the creation of misanthropic intergenerational mistrust.

Although Maupin's characters deal with highly emotive issues, not least Aids, the writing is always warm and lightly humorous, thereby bringing into the mainstream subjects that were still fairly off-limits at the time.

Short and Dwyer show that protection of the traditional culture as well as livestock breeds in pastoral regions of England are highly emotive issues.

It is both a personal and highly emotive topic, and touches on the law, public policy and social attitudes.

We think the study gives people the chance to discuss what is a highly emotive subject.

The Harvard scholars found immigration to be a core, and highly emotive, Tea Party issue, even in Massachusetts, which has relatively low levels of illegal immigration and no foreign borders.