Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the issue " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barring of non-Estonian citizens , mostly Russians , Ukrainians and Byelarussians , drew protests from the Russian leadership and appeared to fuel tension over the issue of Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia [ see this page ] . |
| 2 | Several , especially those with relatively hidden disabilities , were uncertain of the wisdom of this and spoke of being in a dilemma over the issue . |
| 3 | Other sources of budgetary tension between Congress and the President during June included the passage by Congress of a bill to grant automatically renewable benefits to the long-term unemployed , and a confrontation over the issue of emergency urban aid . |
| 4 | I was very angry and threatened to resign from the IAC over the issue . |
| 5 | The dispute was seen as an important test case in the advertising industry over the issue of staff and client defections . |
| 6 | Britain experienced international isolation over the issue and in March 1902 , agreed to the Boers ' wish for peace . |
| 7 | Meanwhile NALGO is considering whether to take industrial action over the issue . |
| 8 | Faced with expressions of " growing concern " from Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and vociferous criticism from the bloc parties ( three of which threatened to leave the coalition over the issue ) , Modrow withdrew plans to create an Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the elections . |
| 9 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 10 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 11 | Dave Cook and myself planned to force a confrontation with the military over the issue of access to Range West . |
| 12 | THOSE who care about such things are at present locked in combat over the issue of whether the greatest number of British skiers go to Austria ( which traditionally enjoys the distinction ) or to France ( which is the flavour of the decade ) . |
| 13 | It was at Montreuil in Ponthieu that a series of Anglo-French meetings took place over the issues of sovereignty and homage in 1306 . |
| 14 | But the tribunal chairman , David Latham , ruled that Ruth Taylor , 50 , of Scarborough , North Yorkshire , had not lost her job over the issue of Sunday working . |
| 15 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 16 | German angst over the issue prompted Turkish President Turgut Özal to assert on German television on Jan. 24 that " Germany had become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit " . |
| 17 | The next time they feel it necessary to spout off in such an ill-informed , ill-advised and half-cocked manner over the issue of immigration , perhaps Councillors and should remind themselves that some of the most severe immigration laws were actually introduced by a Labour Home Secretary . |
| 18 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 19 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 20 | PWI — with COSE at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cast Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 21 | The Public Windows Initiative — with the Common Open Software Environment at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cloak Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 22 | Although this agreement averted a government crisis , Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30 . |
| 23 | However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) . |
| 24 | If finalized , the agreement would be the last of four deals designed to end decades of wrangling over the issue of rights to the land above the 60th parallel and to the oil and gas contained therein . |
| 25 | There is no evidence that sceattas circulated widely in the Mercian hinterland and some reason to suggest in the light of a multiplicity of distinctive sceatta coinages in eastern and southern England that Aethelbald , who may have minted in Canterbury , failed to impose his authority over the issue of coins by others , ‘ a critical commentary ’ , perhaps ‘ on what Bede asserts , and on Aethelbald 's own claims ’ . |
| 26 | Gen. Chaovalit resigned his post ostensibly following a verbal exchange with a Cabinet colleague over the issue of corruption . |
| 27 | The deeper the impact of glasnost , the closer Soviet historians appear to be moving towards constructive debate over the issues raised by revisionist research . |
| 28 | The main opposition grouping , the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , which had doubled its parliamentary representation in the December elections , was , like the KMT , subject to internal division over the issue of Taiwanese nationalism . |
| 29 | The British , perhaps sensitive to intense American lobbying over the issue , want to adopt the directive as it stands . |
| 30 | A decision over the issue of inter-enterprise debt was described by the Financial Times of Sept. 4 as " a messy compromise " . |