Sentence examples for issues are being laid from inspiring English sources
On the campaign trail, the issues are being laid before voters in stark terms.
Enormous plans are being laid".
People are being laid off.
The pitches are being laid.
Teachers are being laid off.
Just how sensitive the issue of Jerusalem is was laid bare at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday when, fearing accusations of not being pro-Israel enough, the party leadership hurriedly revived a clause in the platform from previous years proclaiming the city as the Jewish state's capital when much of the rest of the world withholds recognition.
"Everybody's been laid off.
"We still haven't seen the business plan in details, but the real issue is the matter of 75 people being laid off," said Giovanni Nencini, an employee and factory spokesman for the trade union Cobas.
In her speech, Ms Reeves also addressed the issue of long-term workers being laid off.
"We're still dealing with the most basic of issues, apartments and businesses being closed, workers being laid off, people moving out," she said.
