sensitive issue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensitiveandissue
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sensitive
adjective
uk/ˈsen.sɪ.tɪv/us/ˈsen.sə.t̬ɪv/
easily upset by the things people say or do, or causing people to be upset, embarrassed, ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪʃ.uː/us/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofsensitiveandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsensitive issue
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A particularlysensitiveissueconcerns the registration of voters and the respective roles of the electoral commission and the interior ministry.
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This is clearly asensitiveissue, which would bear further investigation.
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Limits with regard to participation in sports were an especiallysensitiveissuefor male respondents.
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The directive determines the principles of thesensitiveissueof fixing charges and costs and of establishing a uniform accounting system for cost calculations.
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Affordable healthcare is asensitiveissuefor retirees living on a fixed income, particularly those with chronic conditions.
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This is asensitiveissue, but one that needs further exploration.
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The discussion addressed asensitiveissue, as suggested by the simultaneous speech of several participants and by the display of strongly-held and emotionally-charged views.
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Tax is such asensitiveissueat elections that politicians are nervous about openly demanding the increased taxes which the public sector requires.
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Stillbirths constituted a particularlysensitiveissue, fraught with religious, ideological and psychological connotations.
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This argument touched upon asensitiveissue.
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Perhaps the mostsensitiveissuewas the maintenance of the marketplace - which is really to say the supply of bread, which had been the staple of the diet since antiquity.
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I accept that it is asensitiveissueand respect the problems that may arise.
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We recognise that there are a variety of views on thesensitiveissueof where an individual child or form of disability will best prosper.
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We are having the inquiry because it is such asensitiveissue.
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It is about who should have legislative responsibility over a complex andsensitiveissuethat can affect the lives of many women.
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We have tried to do that in view of the fact that this is a particularlysensitiveissue.
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I am happy to try, through normal parliamentary means, to discuss thissensitiveissuewith colleagues from all parties.
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I know that that is asensitiveissue.
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I believe that this would be the wrong way to approach thissensitiveissue.
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