Sentence examples for issue that it was from inspiring English sources

TO ALMOST everyone's relief, immigration is no longer the urgent issue that it was last year and in 2006.

During those years, Mr. Pitofsky said, antitrust was such a popular and populist issue that it was actually an important aspect of presidential campaigns.

Crime, too, is not the hot issue that it was in France, although certainly an increase in crime is part of a general complaint that life after Communism has not been as rosy as promised.

Mr. Rizzo said in June that he raised no objections at the time to the Justice Department opinion but said that he now believed it was "overbroad for the issue that it was intended to cover".

Mr. Butler, now a diplomat in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in an interview the council was confronted with "the same issue that it was trying to solve with this resolution, namely a recalcitrant state bucking its authority".

"They latched onto this and made it into an issue that it wasn't," he said.

But an issue like that – it wasn't easy to come to a compromise.

"There is no migration issue, remove that – it is a refugee issue," he said.

But of course it became the national issue that it is".

Genocide is an issue that it is worth intervening to try to stop.

"We certainly were supportive of Rick, but I don't think this is an issue that it's worth trying to second-guess," he said.