That widely seen image captured the hot-button debates surrounding the store's arrival, which pitted its corporate owners, Wal-Mart, against local residents who wanted to protect the area's vibrant public markets, rich cultural history and significant archaeological sites.
Contrast guǎn with zhì, the more abstract term for "rule," which appears in China's hot-button debate about the difference between "the rule of law" (法治, fǎzhì) and "the rule of man" (人治, rénzhì), as well as in official terms like "Autonomous Regions" (自治区, zìzhìqū) and "to punish" (处治, chǔzhì).
The latest hot-button debate in this increasingly contentious arena: The newly crafted Internet Radio Fairness Act.
As with many other subjects that involve both a hot-button debate and a slew of nuanced details, however, the polling on this issue is highly sensitive to how the question is phrased.
GMOs have become a hot button for debate and misinformation.
At the same time, across town, a panel of 11 doctors and scientists assembled by the private National Academy of Sciences and chaired by Dr. Irving Weissman of Stanford reported on a specific hot button of the perfectibility debate: cloning.
Immigration has become such a hot button issue in the debate about Donald Trump, but there are also real concerns about what is happening to the everyday American citizen that are not being addressed by the pundits.
This is the hot button of the work-life debate at the moment, a question on which the future of women and work might well hinge.
In the book Mr. Williams "will argue that the American public benefits from a vigorous and full-throated debate on hot button issues of political and cultural import" and "chronicle his own first-hand experience of the consequences of crossing the line in public expression," the statement said.
Many of the hot button social issues that dominate debate today -- affirmative action, abortion, gay marriage, immigration reform -- became part of the public dialogue only after decades of social struggle.
But Sister Toldjah, a self-described "conservative Southern belle" thinks the error is part of trend of irresponsibility and bias in which the "MSM actively inserts itself into the public debate over various hot button issues with emotion-based reporting that routinely ignores or paints in a negative light the other side of a given argument".
