"The only concrete issue on the table now is the state takeover".
A concrete issue is the problem of power-plant location, an urgent question in many advanced and developing countries.
So as well as discussing the wider issues, I think it's necessary that we start taking action on one concrete issue now: arts organisations' sponsorship by oil.
Even this bumper-sticker shorthand—"public option"—has helped transform it from a concrete issue into a rallying cry: the ultimate expression of communitarian ideals for one side, the most insidious example of thinly-veiled socialism for the other.
"We hope that by taking up this smaller, concrete issue, we can advance the cause of constitutional rights in general," said Xu Zhiyong, 30, a law professor at Telecommunications University in Beijing and an author of the petition.
He doesn't explain; and obviously if the Republican argument rests on the idea that we should have let Muammar Qaddafi slaughter the citizens of Benghazi in February 2011, it's going to be hard for Mr Romney to score points in debates.There is really just one concrete issue here: security at the Benghazi consulate proved inadequate, and the administration bears responsibility for that.
Never mind that Pence had just done the opposite on the concrete issue at hand, walking back his criticism of Trump's Muslim ban shortly after being picked as his vice-presidential candidate; he'd rather paint a little picture of his heart-to-heart with President Trump about nothing in particular.
A second and more concrete issue, he said, is that the resolution would channel oil revenues as well as other sources of money into a fund that would be for the benefit of Iraqi people but managed by American and British leaders.
The treatment gap, as demonstrated by the two case examples, is not an abstract concept but a concrete issue with a real impact on citizens.
Consequently, we will start from the assumption that there is a plurality of coexisting normative-ethical theories which could be applied to a concrete issue [ 21].
