Sentence examples for issues left over from inspiring English sources

"This is a historic agreement, giving us an agreed approach to some of the most difficult issues left over from Northern Ireland's past.

The violence came as the administration had been feverishly trying in the last two weeks to come up with solutions to the most difficult issues left over from the summit meeting in July.

All of the five main parties in the Stormont executive indicated on Tuesday afternoon that they would be recommending that their membership endorse the agreement, which has 75 sections dealing with a range of contentious issues left over from the peace process.

After 11 new senators were sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the new majority leader, took his place, the Senate sought to resolve the first of the issues left over from the last session, a $7 billion plan to keep unemployment checks flowing this week to about 800,000 people.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs declined to comment at his daily briefing, telling reporters, "I appreciate the invitation to get involved, but I'll decline to RSVP". Meanwhile, an administration ready to tackle campaign priorities such as health care and climate change remains mired in issues left over from the Bush administration.

He is currently at work on a new nonfiction book, and is a member of an ad hoc group of experts advocating a new, constructive, U.S. government approach to resolving post-conflict issues left over from the Laos covert war.

"The border issue is an issue left over from history," she said in a statement, adding that "both sides should carry out communication and negotiations to resolve it".

The United States also resolved an emotional issue left over from the Cancún talks by reaching an agreement with four impoverished West African nations -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali.

Enter Cassandra Second thoughts A deal at dawn ReprintsIn it, Portugal acknowledged that Macau was part of China, which had sovereignty over the enclave; that Macau was an issue "left over by history"; and therefore that its future should be negotiated at an "opportune" time.

The plutonium at issue was left over from the production of nuclear weapons.

I've been to Sierra Leone, and worked with ex-militia in eastern DRC; I've been to Greenland to look at the problems with conflict rubies, and to California to see the toxic legacy issues of mercury left over from the gold rush – an estimated 19 million pounds of mercury in the watersheds.