core issue

collocation in English

meaningsofcoreandissue

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core
adjective
uk
/kɔːr/
us
/kɔːr/
most important or ...
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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 ofcoreandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcore issue

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Given that ourcoreissueis explanatory ecumenism, we will look at economics imperialism as a challenge to philosophical accounts of social scientific explanation.
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The following sections examine the relation between babbling and word production, and (thecoreissue in the chapter) how perceptual representations are related to productions.
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Judging from the testimonies of those arrested or interviewed by the press, this was not a case of race-based violence - thecoreissuewas nativism.
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What if we recast this conventional view by making thecoreissuethe discourse conditions under which linguistic communication occurs?
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First, thecoreissueof village life, the disposition of income from the communal farm, varied from village to village.
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Economics, in one telling example, has much trouble with thecoreissueof what exactly people are pursuing when they are rational.
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Onecoreissueseems to be that one cannot have both ontological certainty and epistemological security at the same time.
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In fact, its developmental connections and transformations into other typical patterns are thecoreissue in a developmental study of psychopathology in a person-oriented framework.
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Wegner's (2002) book challenges acoreissuein the brain-mind problem, that is, conscious will.
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With reference to thecoreissueof growth and poverty reduction, the report includes a fairly robust and forthright call for a ' step change' in rates of economic growth.
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Thecoreissueis to ensure the triumph of order over terror so that democratic stability may indeed be established.
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Therefore, for example, a decision has to be made on thecoreissueof the future financing of fisheries support.
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Thecoreissueis the financing of the health service.
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The firstcoreissueis speed of diagnosis.
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In my view, this is acoreissuethat must be addressed.
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Later, we shall discuss thecoreissueof prior scrutiny.
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I disagree for the reason that thecoreissueis to ban bull bars.
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The agreements add a secondary dimension to the criticalcoreissue: the realities of global trade and inter-communication.
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Thecoreissue, however, is teacher training and schools, with physical exercise actually becoming a priority in teacher training.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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