Example sentences of "over [art] issue [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although this agreement averted a government crisis , Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30 .
2 This , however , was denied by Kravchuk on March 19 , and at the Kiev summit he denied Yeltsin 's claims of a telephone conversation between them over the issue on March 16 .
3 There is still no consensus over the issue of a Syrian military withdrawal from Lebanon — which the Christian MPs have been obliged by their militia leaders and by General Michel Aoun to discuss , although the Muslims are reluctant to debate the topic at present .
4 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 ) .
5 The dispute was seen as an important test case in the advertising industry over the issue of staff and client defections .
6 With the conference appearing doomed to collapse over the issue of the fifth freedom , Canada made a last-ditch effort to save the situation by proposing the first four freedoms , and one weekly round-trip flight that could be increased under an escalator clause of 65 per cent capacity and over .
7 The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years .
8 However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT .
9 If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles .
10 But still the council would n't move over the issue of hiring rooms to us .
11 Dave Cook and myself planned to force a confrontation with the military over the issue of access to Range West .
12 Over the issue of the future ownership of Mar Lodge , which contains three of Britain 's five highest mountains , Mr. Lang for months resisted pressure even to meet with the conservation groups who would like to rescue it .
13 Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue .
14 The Charter , backed by David Hatch , managing editor of Radio 1 , is considered a defensive move by the BBC as it prepares for difficult negotiations with the government over the issue of privatisation of the national network .
15 Given his hard-line views — in particular his anti-Spanish outlook , his personal hostility to Mary 's chief religious adviser , Cardinal Pole , and his inflexibility over the issue of ecclesiastical property-it was only a matter of time before relations between England and the Holy See foundered .
16 Handy had left McKinsey over the issue of the status of the executive search function within the organisation .
17 I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed .
18 The dominance of economic terms of reference , to the possible detriment of clients , rather than matters of public service can also be seen over the issue of who was to be accepted as a member of the scheme .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 An equally serious split occurred in 1926 over the issue of the General Strike .
22 Given the concerns of the 1920s , it comes as no surprise that the initial challenge was over the issue of administrative law .
23 For example prison officers at Wandsworth threatened industrial action in 1997 partly over the issue of the prison 's infestation by rats and cockroaches and the methods used to combat it ( Guardian , 24 January 1997 ) .
24 The spring of 1996 saw the most alarming disruption to date : protest action including a national overtime ban by prison officers over the issue of staffing levels ( especially in local prisons and remand centres ) led to major riots by inmates .
25 In the lowlands both farmers and environmentalists may combine to oppose development , but are often at loggerheads over the issue of access to farmland .
26 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 ’ .
27 First , senior members of the Labour Party broke with the party over the issue of these constitutional changes in order to form the SDP , and we have already seen that the SDP wishes to fashion a new constitution for the country .
28 Thomas Sutton also participated in the quarrels between the Friars Preacher and the Friars Minor over the issue of poverty .
29 In 1914 she resigned from the paper because of differences with her colleagues over the issue of war , and became a member of the executive committee of the Union of Democratic Control , founded by E. D. Morel [ q.v. ] to campaign against secret diplomacy .
30 Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ .
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