serious issue

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandissue

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ofseriousandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious issue

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There are a number of points at which the naturalist can takeseriousissuewith premise (1).
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Several lines of evidence indicate that genetic adaptation to captivity is aseriousissuein conservation.
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So expense is still aseriousissuefor all but a few.
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This 'lag' isn't aseriousissuewhen cutting in a straight line, but becomes critical when the cut approaches or exits a corner.
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This is aseriousissue, which cannot be dismissed lightly.
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It seems that a consistent treatment of all contributions to the electrostatic free energy is aseriousissue.
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Still, one looks in vain for scholarship which takes union decline in this field to be aseriousissue.
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For many scheduling problems, including our spacecraft problem, completeness is not aseriousissue, as these problems are generally rich in valid solutions.
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As is made apparent below, this is not aseriousissuehere.
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None of this is to takeseriousissuewith the utility of the book or of the approach it describes.
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The falling birthrate is considered as aseriousissuein the business world, but it tends to be given low priority.
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This raises aseriousissuewith regard to the delimitation of extraposition as a syntactic category.
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This by no means implies that the possible adverse effects on human health and safety are not aseriousissuethat requires constant scrutiny.
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In some cases, not only the area of residence, but also the right of access to a certain area becomes a veryseriousissue.
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As privacy was highly valued in these communities, this suspicion was aseriousissue.
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In addition, confounding is aseriousissuein observational studies.
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False positive results may result in over investigation and intervention whereas the potentially moreseriousissueof a false negative result may place a woman and her pregnancy at risk.
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But his opponents could also use it, to explain the need for taking incomparability as aseriousissue for decision-makers, whatever the ultimate and perhaps unknowable structure of good.
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