Sentence examples for main issue but from inspiring English sources

THE economy is the election's main issue, but health care is its most incendiary.

It's not the height of these buildings that is the main issue, but the vulnerability to catastrophic damage causing civilian casualties at street level.

Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British foreign secretary, has warned his Iraqi counterpart that the missile war has muddied the main issue, but Iraq does not seem to be listening.Iran, in contrast, has been showing its usual Persian subtlety.

Size is not the main issue, but control and coordination are.

Efficiency was not the main issue, but new products were, which does not necessarily imply a change in organization.

In practice, the number of arithmetic operations is not the main issue, but the implementation cost in terms of hardware complexity, time delays, and energy consumption.

"It skirted the main issues but I don't feel there was any depth on the subjects I wanted to hear about.

The unions said the main issue was pensions, but Yale said the unions struck largely to pressure the university to grant union recognition to its graduate teaching assistants.

The E.U. must make human rights not a side issue, but the main issue.

This distracts from the main issue of gun control, but it is true that gunmen in recent mass-shootings have indeed been mentally ill.

"The main issue isn't discipline but the state of tooling," said Mendels.