key issue

collocation in English

meaningsofkeyandissue

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key
adjective
uk
/kiː/us
/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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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 ofkeyandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkey issue

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Akeyissuein the book is an analysis of the experience with the application of economic instruments, such as charges and tradable discharge permits.
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Since thekeyissueis the psychological pressure that law can exert on every individual mind, the law must be clear, well diffused, and foreseeable.
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Akeyissuein this respect is the presence of a credible source of counterframing.
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Akeyissueis the future political direction of a growing mass of semiproletarian households in an increasingly polarised rural society.
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Thekeyissuefor the high-density compression is the uniform ablation.
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Akeyissuein models of predation is the ability of firms to commit to particular time paths for output or prices.
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Thekeyissuefor the present argument is that this was a time of evolutionary change in anatomy, as well as technology and cognition.
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Akeyissueregards the significance, or otherwise, of the correlations discovered in the present study in the disease pathogenesis.
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Akeyissueregarding isocortical evolution is whether a ventral pallial division can be separately distinguished on gene-expression criteria.
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At the algorithmic level thekeyissueis one of computational efficiency, whereas issues of rationality arise at the intentional level.
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Thekeyissuewas the loosening of the rigid boundary between architectural researchers and practitioners.
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Thekeyissue, therefore, is a clear definition of the aim of the analysis.
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This is akeyissuewhich will be returned to later in this section.
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Thekeyissue, though, is whether there are any truths that it is not logically possible to know. 17.
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Housing was akeyissuefor the new government.
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Anotherkeyissueis the handling of cars and parking.
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Akeyissuein the development of any healthcare intervention is its transportability to other settings.
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Akeyissuein the application of a groupbased model is determining how many groups define the best fitting model.
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For the purpose of studying tax policies, thekeyissueis whether intercohort persistence responds to taxation.
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