Sentence examples for pick the issue from inspiring English sources

He is a skilful parliamentary tactician, and may be able to pick the issue on which that vote will come.

"If we were to pick the issue that stands out most at the moment, it is the failure of governing in Washington at a time when many Americans are hurting," Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist for the Economic Outlook Group of Princeton, N.J., wrote to clients last week.

Q: Back to basics about your role in the British government for an American audience, who do you report to, and how do you pick the issues that you're working on?

After all, candidates pick the issues and the positions they want to argue (Mike Huckabee's is social security; Ben Carson's is the pyramids).

We are also having a presentation on campus, where we let students pick the issues and we tell them where the candidate positions are.

Based on initial reactions we did some minor edits but we quickly saw the Internet community picked the issue up in an astonishing way".

"He's picking the issues that he wants to discuss.

The president picks the issues, he assigns them priority and nobody can interrupt except to clap or be a jackass.

The National Election Pool questionnaire asked people leaving the polls to pick "the one issue that mattered most in deciding how you voted for president".

It is the extreme rightwing parties that, more often than not, pick the political issues of the day, while the other parties fall into line.

Most of the time presidents don't pick the foreign policy issues they want to tackle — the issues choose them.