Sentence examples for serious issue facing from inspiring English sources

Q. Sustainability has always been very important to you. A. Climate change is the most serious issue facing architects today.

Roger Cohen's blithe optimism for the leadership of the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, ignores the most serious issue facing him ("Fayyad's road to Palestine," Globalist, April 30).

Thanks to Mr. Kristof for highlighting a serious issue facing America today: the lack of women in elected office at every level of government.

With slow progress on the international front, European governments have launched their own initiatives to counter what Ida Auken, the Danish environment minister, last week described as the "most serious" issue facing the continent.

Prosperity allowed voters to worry about an issue they used to regard as esoteric: Ipsos MORI polls found 19% of the public citing pollution as a serious issue facing the country in early 2007.

Ms. O'Connell, a public health worker and a nurse, said that the most serious issue facing the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church was their unwillingness to communicate with progressive groups.

"But there are still some serious issues facing her".

One of the most serious issues facing Hayes was that of inflation.

There are many serious issues facing the Olympic committee, including public unease over the exorbitant costs of the Games.

Your columns have raised and grappled with some of the most serious issues facing our beleaguered press.

"There are serious issues facing this country, and the public has the right to expect a serious examination of those issues during this fall's debates," the statement said.