They urged him not to go to war over the issue.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

They did not want to support him on this issue.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Andrei Koztunof of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow says both countries essentially agreed not to make it a major issue.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

"If you want to find a scapegoat you can, but that is not the main issue on which you want to focus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

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

Opening the conference, the Maldivian leader said Monday that the issue of climate change should not be considered equal to other international issues.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Vistorina,who preferred not to give her last name, said good governance was also an issue for her.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

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

But Iowa Democrat Alan Bohanan says he does not think that the deeply divisive issue will lead to significant changes in the House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Showkat was not the first person in Kashmir to raise the stone-throwing issue.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

He thinks that the electoral law is an "existential issue" affecting all Iraqis, as well as the future of the country and should not be rushed to a vote.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

So I think it becomes clear that even if we want to reduce our regional profile, an issue like the Yemen issue makes it clear that this is not possible,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

But if the Tehran government chooses not to engage on the nuclear issue, that would put the United States in a stronger position to seek "other ways" of applying pressure on Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"I had hoped for more," "Certainly the tone was nice, but it just did not seem to me that on the issue of policies he really learned a great deal in the last couple of week.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

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

"I think the threat to the country presented by this defection really relates to the issue of whether or not in the United States of America, our people want the majority to have whatever it wants without restraint, without a check or a balance,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"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 talk issue is not going to be anything serious, other than buying time for both the Iranian regime and the Iranian opposition, because as far as the Iranian regime is concerned, no steps are being taken in the direction of bridging the gaps with the opposition anymore,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12