domestic issue

collocation in English

meaningsofdomesticandissue

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domestic
adjective
uk
/dəˈmes.tɪk/us
/dəˈmes.tɪk/
relating to a person's ...
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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 ofdomesticandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdomestic issue

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The franchise was regarded as adomesticissueto be resolved once self-government had been attained.
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I venture to suggest that, had it been adomesticissue, we would not have been drummed out of the regiment.
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It was an issue of people wanting to take power simply as adomesticissue.
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I have discovered in my constituency more feeling on this subject than on any otherdomesticissue.
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Moreover, we are not dealing here only with adomesticissue.
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I am also pleased that thedomesticissueof fat has been increased.
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This is not adomesticissue; this is an international issue.
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Thirdly, there is the important issue of international comity, because none of these questions is nowadays a purelydomesticissue.
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It is adomesticissue, but it has nothing to do with prices.
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This is a prettydomesticissueand it should be so because it must be done by the people who are going to work it.
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We are in honour bound not to raise a highly controversialdomesticissuenow.
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He suggested that no one had decided whether this was adomesticissueor an international issue.
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It is intensely serious; it is thedomesticissueof our time.
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We are legislating for a possibly sensitivedomesticissueby what amounts almost to blanket approval.
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I realise this is adomesticissue, but it helps to point out a failure in the existing cohesion policy.
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I believe that community relations in our cities will be the most importantdomesticissuefor the country over the next generation.
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We have had more interference on this issue, which is very much adomesticissue, than one could possibly imagine.
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Unemployment is the most importantdomesticissuefacing our political economy.
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I agree that it remains perhaps the most importantdomesticissue.
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They have a good chance of focusing the country's mind on what is far and away the greatestdomesticissuefacing the nation.
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