Sentence examples for publicized issue from inspiring English sources

In fact, the percentage not voting could be even lower for a controversial and highly publicized issue such as same-sex marriage.

While international criticism grows over the treatment of prisoners from Afghanistan by the United States, Sweden has raised a related, though less publicized, issue: the rights of those whose bank accounts have been frozen in the war on terrorism.

And while there is great concern about highway safety, it is centered on problems like the defects of Firestone tires on Ford's sport utility vehicles, not on the less publicized issue of seat belts.

It became a heavily publicized issue in Washington State in 2009 after details emerged that Maurice Clemmons, a repeat felon who killed four police officers in Lakewood, Wash., had paid only $8,000 to get a bond company to post his $190,000 bail less than a week before the shooting.

Can an organization claim to represent the interests of small businesses and never lift a finger to stop the most highly publicized issue affecting small businesses for the last eight years?

While the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch answers to British lawmakers about his knowledge of internal phone hacking practices at News International, the UK newspaper arm of News Corp, another threat to News Corp's credibility and image is taking shape in the form on a far less publicized issue -- climate hypocrisy.

During his 1996 race for the House, Democrats publicized issues of his newsletter that called Barbara Jordan, the African-American Texas congresswoman, a "half-educated victimologist" and said of crime in Washington, D.C., "I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal".

When such basic facts as the up or down decision on one of the most relentlessly publicized issues around are screwed up, there's not much hope of understanding more complex matters that don't fit into simplistic templates.

While concrete efforts have been made to correct wrong site surgeries and other well publicized issues from the past, not enough has been done to address medical error that results from an incomplete or inaccurate diagnosis.

The government can also lead by example, publicize issues, foster discussion and apply moral suasion.

Combining the zeal of an advocacy group with the methods of a law firm, the group publicizes issues relating to whistle-blowers.