Language matters because when used as rhetoric it can have a purposeful smoke-and-mirrors effect, shielding more pressing issues that need our attention.
There is a litany of issues that need our national attention and moral courage — mass incarceration, poverty, gun policy, voting rights, women's access to health care, L.G.B.T. rights, educational equality, immigration reform.
This is just a handful of issues that need our immediate attention.
Dr. Frieden called the situation "a very serious health issue that needs more attention".
Water eutrophication is a serious global issue that needs urgent attention.
As a result, the recovery of REEs is a significant issue that needs appropriate attention.
Once again, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has moved ministers from one massive and fundamental issue that needs serious attention and reform in India, like commerce or roads or petroleum, to another, often completely unrelated, issue.
The structural dynamics of oak woodlands is a crucial but neglected issue that needs greater attention from policy forums working toward their conservation and restoration as well as from stakeholders and society as a whole.
John Haggerty Port Sunlight, Wirral Wally Harbert (Letters, 21 June) raises an issue that needs greater attention, viz large profitable companies are allowed to pay high dividends and low wages because of tax credit subsidy.
First, with respect to whether the appropriate forum is the District Court of Appeal or is this court: The District Court of Appeal has, of course, certified this issue as a matter of great public importance and a issue that needs immediate attention.
(Treebanks are often developed by graduate student annotators tutored by computational linguists; naturally, consistency between annotators is an issue that needs regular attention. See Artstein and Poesio, 2008, for discussion of the methodological issues).
