Issues
['ɪʃjʊ]
Examples
- Most of its issues are still undecided among Christians to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To what problems, what issues, shall we give our attention? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of course you will find plenty of socialists who see other issues and who smile a bit at the rigors of economic determinism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And where are the open questions: the issues that everybody should consider, the problems that scientists should study? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In order to understand the action of a pump, we will suppose that no water is in the pump, and we will pump until a stream issues from the spout. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Something has come between which deflects concern to side issues. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At other times this future bursts suddenly, as if a rock had rent, and in it a grave had opened, whence issues the body of one that slept. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rightly understood, these social currents would, I believe, lead to the central issues of life, the vital points upon which happiness depends. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Partly--I mean, as to the possible issues. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Issues of a magazine of thirty-two, forty-eight, or even more pages, are produced in this manner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So with political issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It had to be left to fate and chance to resolve the issues. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Having seen the evil results we have come to detest a conscious choice of issues, to feel that it smacks of sinister plotting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The more issues a party meets the less votes it is likely to poll. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As soon as Roosevelt had thrown off the burden of preserving a false harmony among irreconcilable Republicans, he issued a platform full of definiteness and square dealing with many issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Having to do with things in an intelligent way issues in acquaintance or familiarity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In these forms, rapidly rotating wheels lift the water and drive it onward into a discharge pipe, from which it issues with great force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Water issues in a narrow jet similar to that of the ordinary garden hose and strikes with great force against the lower part of the wheel, thereby causing rotation of the wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Political discussion, whether reactionary or radical, is monotonously confined to very few issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At moments she seemed to be regarding issues from a Nebo denied to others around. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Let anyone of these issues be injected into his campaign and the lines of party action would be cut athwart. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is why their issues are so sterile; that is why the absorption in next steps is a diversion from statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The clever choice of issues influences all politics from the petty manoeuvers of a ward leader to the most brilliant creative statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The initiative and referendum will help: they are a method of voting on definite issues instead of electing an administration in bulk. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus the issues in the trade unions may be far more directly important to statecraft than the destiny of the Republican Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet for all its abuse the deliberate choice of issues is one of the high selective arts of the statesman. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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