Last year the issue under discussion was Islam.
In court transcripts, it is striking how often the issue under discussion shifts or changes character.
But the issue under discussion – synthetic biology – is an unusual topic.
All lack the written submissions that usually accompany a decision and give the background and pros and cons of the issue under discussion.
From this the group aims to draw up a list of priorities, including things that will have the most impact on the issue under discussion and those whose outcome is the most uncertain.
The issue under discussion by the presumptive Republican and Democratic nominees for president was a vital one, if not exactly the sort that stops voters' hearts: how to protect the Social Security system, which both candidates say is slowly going broke.
Experts with different positions on the issue under discussion are asked to testify before the representatives of the organizing institution (most often a regulatory agency) or the deliberative panel.
However, the ability to focus an analysis in terms of a particular level of meaning allows for the production of information more specific to the issue under discussion – something unobtainable using previous approaches (Butler, 2003).
