Democratic-leaning analysts take issue with that notion.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

What this is, is you take a group of studies on an issue, you pool them all together, and then you weight studies differently depending on factors like how large they were, how good their methods were, and then you come out with overall estimates about the impact of something, in this case the Mediterranean Diet, on health outcomes.

所谓荟萃分析就是将某一问题的一组研究,汇总起来,并根据某些因素,赋予这些研究不同的权重,如基于研究的大小,研究方法的好坏等,然后得出关于某事物的影响的总体评估,在地中海式饮食中就是指健康结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The bill faces strong opposition in the Senate. The upper house of Congress is not expected to take up the issue until September.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

You are going to take this entire issue and boil it down to 30 second ads."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"With regards to Kashmir it remains our view a resolution of that issue has to take into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

It is an issue where we need to take concrete action to increase the number of women in politics and especially at decision-making levels in politics,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

When the Food and Drug Administration does issue new limits on salt, the changes on the menu and on grocery food labels will take time to implement.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Lois Fischbeck of Maryland came to urge the court to ban capital punishment, even though the justices are not scheduled to take on a particular case this term that would deal with the issue directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The chairman of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan, Ahmad Nader Nadery,tells VOA that resolving the issue of the disputed ballots could delay certifying the election by weeks, but should not take months as some are suggesting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"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