It also involves a hot political issue.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He says the electoral law is a political issue and affects the interests of all parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"Land is a major social and political issue,very explosive and very much inclined to provoke a lot of conflict in different parts of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"What you've got here is a legal issue and a political issue and both of those are very much in play at the present time,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

At the end of the day,he said, agriculture is a political issue.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

That sounds simple. But the issue is a complex mix of technical,business, political and legal questions.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The chief issue was political. Leaders of the Northern Alliance had decided that agricultural interests could expect little help from either the Republican or Democratic parties.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Hours before the vote Tuesday, President Obama told reporters at the White House that education and the safety of communities should not be a political party issue.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

President Obama faces domestic political pressure of his own in dealing with the Chinese currency issue and its impact on trade.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Legal experts remain divided over the issue. However many political observers in Turkey say it is unlikely the president will end up in court.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But he said he is not giving up on fixing health care, and that he did not tackle the issue to boost his political standing.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Powell - one of the most respected and best known black political figures in the country - chose the same program to issue his rebuttal.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Food security,nutrition and sustainable agriculture must remain a priority issue on the political agenda. The Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development runs through March 31st.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In its 1973 "Roe versus Wade" decision, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that individual states may not ban abortion, but it did not end the political battle over the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

These folks need to stop scaring everybody." Democrats concede the political stakes on the health-care issue are very high, both for the president and for the Democratic majorities in Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

He says the launch delay at this late stage appears political rather than technical, since it comes just a day after Presidents Obama and Medvedev discussed the issue in Singapore.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Some political analysts argue that the issue is unlikely to gain any traction before then, especially if concerns over the near 10 percent unemployment rate and health care continue to dominate the political agenda.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Since her nomination last week, comes this women Sonia Sotomayor has been heavily scrutinized, but not on her possible views concerning abortion,gun control, or any other issue that often divides Americans on political or moral grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

But the Secretary of State says Mr.Karzai intends to announce on Tuesday how he plans to proceed on the issue, and that she is "encouraged by the direction" of events in the Afghan political crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"Obviously there is a bit of a spread between those two figures and it suggests the possibility of some political problems for the president if he should not take the military recommendation and that difference gets to be a big issue,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"The court decides upon the evidences of the case and the law of the country, so at this time they may say, it just is a political case, but they saw that the court has got so evidence, more than 85 personal evidences, witnesses,and we present more than so this is not a political case but a pure,pure legal issue,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23