In fairness to the Republicans, it is a more important issue for them than for Democrats.
So to me, the more important issue is not how long we live, but how well we live.
While there is much public posturing in Washington on the issue of too-big-to-fail, the more important issue than scale is safety.
The larger and more important issue is whether this year's bad crop yield is an omen of what we should expect going forward.
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But in this chaos its not only content production that will grow, the more important issue is what the content production should be, and who it is for?
Tailpipe emissions standards are a much more important issue in California, which has them in place to control pollution from millions of cars, than in North Dakota, which does not have regulations.
But among those who have studied disasters in the developing world, there is a more important issue, one that has so far been little discussed: the longer-term economic implications the affected countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia may face.
But there is a broader, far more important policy issue that concerns user fees.
On a global basis, there's no more significant or important issue than literacy.
Perhaps more important, the issue itself animates policy wonks more than voters.
Mr Lynch also thinks the uprisings, by empowering Arab publics, have made the Palestinian issue more important.
That could make the issue more important to voters, which might create a greater incentive for Congress to act.
Although the election was only for local councils, more important things were at issue than who will collect the rubbish.
But a more important point underlies this debt issue: we can be fooled by brilliance.
The issue is more important to GM, whose workforce is much older than Ford 's or Chrysler's, even after last year's big wave of early retirements.
Right now, no issue is more important than restoring economic security for all our families in the wake of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
In evidence to a Parliamentary committee, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said no issue was more important at the moment than the restoration of general bank lending.
The issue is more important to GM, whose workforce is much older than Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people ) or Chrysler's, even after last year's big wave of early retirements.
And they have to be very careful on Iraq because though the public thinks it's the most important issue, more than half in the Newsweek poll said they were concerned the Democrats would push too fast on troop withdrawal.
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"I believe this issue is more important than any appropriation, or any new set of regulations, for it goes to the heart of who we are as a people and what we are as a nation, " he said.
The issue becomes even more important when it involves referring judgment to man-made law for cases involving the rights of Muslims as a whole.
But when asked which issue was extremely important to their vote, more voters said corruption and ethics in government than any other issue, including the war, according to national exit polls.
But the second, which I would argue is more important, is this raises a character issue.
Less important but much more controversial is the issue of consumer protection.
Polling indicates that Americans who oppose amnesty are more likely to consider the issue extremely important and to vote the issue -- right now, particularly in the Republican primaries.
The struggle to make the provision of basic education in the United States more equitable has been an important domestic political issue since the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the 1960s, and it was reinforced by a school finance reform movement that emerged in the early 1970s.
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