Sentence examples for issue near from inspiring English sources

Obama raised the issue near the end of their bilateral meeting stressing the importance to western security that Nato maintains defence spending in face of threats facing the west in the Middle East, north Africa and Russia.

Compensation is an issue near and dear to Mr. Rakoff's heart, and he mentioned the inequities of Wall Street pay in his hearing on the bank's settlement last week.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee, which handles issues related to trade, said he remains opposed to the South Korean pact because it doesn't go far enough to open its beef market — an issue near and dear to his constituents in Montana.

"Protecting the small pilot is an issue near and dear to their hearts".

Sunday's problems were caused by a signalling issue near Finsbury Park and congestion caused by the over-running work, National Rail Enquiries said.

Sitting down at their summit in California this week President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama will find one new issue near the top of their agenda: the theft by Chinese hackers of US commercial and trade secrets.

Afterward, as they did following a Sunday meeting, White House and Congressional aides issued near-identical statements saying only that "the lines of communication remain open".

Here are some of the major issues: NEAR-TERM COSTS There are three key drivers of Medicare spending: the spiraling cost of all health care as new technologies and treatments are developed; much greater use of medical services by the typical beneficiary; and an aging population.

To deal with this issue of near-zero estimated usage for some isoforms, IUTA replaces those values, together with sporadic estimated zeros, by a user-specified small positive value (0.0001 by default) to facilitate the testing procedure.

"They have had no qualms about grossly misrepresenting my position on issues most near and dear to my heart if it serves their political ambitions.

From the view point of sustainability, the treatment of FRC after the service period of concrete structures should be one of the important issues in near future.