Sentences with phrase «big political issues»

It's interesting that charters have often become big political issues in states where relatively few charter schools operate.

For the elected judges on the state's highest civil court, the trick is to survive politically without thinking about politics — even on big political issues like school finance.

Housing has become a bigger and bigger political issue in recent years as prices keep rising and the level of home ownership falls.

So there I was in my shorts sharing a pot of Earl Grey with Ottaway — also in shorts — and discussing Syria and other big political issues.

In this age of «it's not my job» and «I couldn't be bothered»; when the current fad is the «knockout game» while rather than intervene friends just laugh; when the biggest political issue of the year boils down to how can we repeal healthcare so fewer people are covered;... the most beautiful part of this story is the reminder that what real people do is go out of their way for each other.

School lunches are a big political issue.

Stevens also underlines that the fragmented media environment - with national papers covering the big political issues and the Brussels «trade» press covering the daily policy grind - means that the media get a lot less attention from public affairs professionals.

Public organisations that display the past often shy away from the gritty realities of the big political issues or ideologies - and that needs to change.

Those are the biggest political issues which Labour ran with in their literature and I would anticipate a continued onslaught on a national level over the coming months attacking «police cuts» and Ken Clarke's prisons policy.

The economy is far and away the biggest political issue and will be for a long time to come.

But he concedes that crafting more nuanced rules will be tricky «because there are big political issues.»

And torture allegations in Afghanistan may prove to be the biggest political issue in Canada for 2010, even as the PM denies Canadian responsibility.

If so, it would be a sensational resolution of the biggest political issue of our time.