This was the issue of race.
Weyrich said that abortion ought to be "the keystone of their organizing strategy, since this was the issue that could divide the Democratic Party".
This was the issue that ultimately forced Mr. Gingrich to abandon his advance, and led the House to ban all advance payments for members' books.
This was the issue raised by the nearly simultaneous completion of the Getty Center and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Obviously, many people disagreed, but this was the issue in Jesus' lifetime not whether he, like a few others, could perform miracles, but by what power he did so.
Computer firms may expand from a market they dominate and seek to establish a monopoly in an adjoining one; this was the issue in the case of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
This was the issue the Committee of European Banking Supervisors CEBSS), a quango of national regulators that co-ordinated the tests, had the most argy-bargy with banks about.
This was the issue on which, remember, the very same Lansley who now needs help, cynically capsized pre-election talks on a deal, labelling the Labour plan a "death tax".
While the BBC had to move to the periphery because it has a duty to represent the nation to itself, how it chose to do this was the issue.
When Scalia's rants took a form, it was with this question: "Who would ever have dreamt that 'Exchange established by the State' means 'Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government?' " This was the issue at the heart of the case, and it has a fairly simple answer: every member of Congress who debated and voted on the law, whether for or against.
Before Square, this was the issue with lots of local businesses.
