defining issue

collocation in English

meaningsofdefiningandissue

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defining
adjective
uk
/dɪˈfaɪ.nɪŋ/us
/dɪˈfaɪ.nɪŋ/
A defining moment, feature, etc. is so important that it is or becomes part of the basic meaning or description of ...
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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 ofdefiningandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the field is to move forward on thedefiningissueof information flow, a consensus needs to emerge on what counts as evidence of interactivity.
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In many areas of these extraordinarily wide powers, the opinion of the regulator is thedefiningissue.
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For them, however, thedefiningissuein terms of delivery of public services will perhaps be the involvement of the private sector.
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Every now and again, one comes across adefiningissue—an issue that drives people round the bend, an issue that infuriates people almost beyond reason.
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That, above all, will be the keydefiningissueof the decade.
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That might become thedefiningissueof our discussions on the convention.
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Powers in themselves are not necessarily the important,definingissue.
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Adefiningissuemay indeed come to dominate one particular electoral campaign, sufficiently to swing the result.
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We create environmentally literate leaders who are prepared to address thedefiningissueof the twenty-first century: the human impact on the environment.
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Chapman had built a political platform, but lacked funding and adefiningissue.
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These speeches deal with some of the defining issues of the 1980s.
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