The phrase
"fraught issue" means a topic or problem that is filled with tension, difficulty, or controversy.
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How does it relate to
fraught issues of education and exclusion, originality and exploitation?
One of the most
emotionally fraught issues surrounding pregnancy and the newborn stage is the debate about breastfeeding vs. baby formula.
Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how
politically fraught the issue is.
Instead, I think the big issue for women (and much less so for men) is their lack of confidence in their ability to fulfill their life - goals, which is why marriage, family, and the
extremely fraught issues of sexuality loom so large in our cultural politics.
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has pressed the Prime Minister over the
rather fraught issue of Lord Falconer's pension.
The newest chancellor of the Board of Regents, she hails from the Bronx and will be tasked with dealing
with fraught issues like teacher evaluations, the Common Core and the growing movement to opt out of the curriculum's exams.
The conference did back a separate motion after Labour bosses produced one under pressure - but it did not
concern fraught issues such as single market and customs union membership or a second referendum.
But Brown also notes how scientists, policymakers, and legal experts have struggled with the
ethically fraught issue of hESC research.
About the artist
Taking fraught issues of personal and national identity as her subject, Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) works in photography, film, video, sound, and installation and focuses on the poetics of individual political gestures.
Nankani and Ortega voice the many - layered characters with subtle nuance in this heartbreaking novel that addresses two
emotionally fraught issues of our time, illegal immigration and infertility.
Hannah McGlade's new book bravely addresses the complex and
fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse.
Contraception earned Noonan a consultant's seat on the papal birth control commission created by Pope Paul VI to advise him on
the fraught issue of birth control.
How and when our kids sleep is such
a fraught issue, when all that really matters is that they get some sleep and feel loved as they dream!
Distribution of oil revenues is
a fraught issue.
The debate over congestion pricing is largely over, but it has focused attention on yet
another fraught issue for drivers in and around New York City: pricey bridge tolls.
Not that making the right noises on
this fraught issue will hurt Goldsmith's standing among cabbies, something his campaign adviser Lynton Crosby will pay attention to.
The fraught issue of the Irish border received the most attention on the the first day of Brexit talks and will be managed by leading officials on both sides.
In 2016's turbulent social and political climate, the exhibitions that resonated did not shy away from
the fraught issues of our times.
In each painting where she has a body meet another body, we feel an expectant frisson, because in that meeting we have politics, psychology, sex or domination — all
the fraught issues that must be negotiated because we are not alone.
Assigning credibility or expertise is
a fraught issue, particularly in a wicked phenomenon like climate change — as Anderegg et al. (1) discussed in a recent issue of PNAS.
According to YLAL,
this fraught issue attracted an «enormous number» of comments.
Since child custody is such an emotionally
fraught issue, it can be very helpful to understand the basics of California's laws on the subject.
It's such
a fraught issue because so many of us are desperate for our kids not to have any of the body / self esteem «issues» that we had growing up.