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

VOA: special.2009.07.30

So to imply that now you can eat all you want, you have an issue to free ticket if you will, some people might consider not the right message.

假如说现在你可以吃任何你想吃的东西,这里面存在一个免费门票的问题,有些人对营销信息的理解并不正确

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You certainly could make the case that it is not... their wealth is not appropriate to the goodness in their hearts, but that's not really the morally relevant issue.

你当然可以举出例子来。,说他们的财富与他们的良善不相当，但这与道义无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They did not want to support him on this issue.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

It's not as though someday you're going to open up an issue of National Geographic where the cover story's going to be "At long last, explorers have discovered the number two."

你不会在某一天,打开一本国家地理时,发现上面会印着这样的封面故事,探险家们终于发现了数字2

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

Now I'm not-- again, this is the kind of detail I'm not expecting you to remember, but it's just an exemplar of this broader issue about how dependence on certain foods leads to nutritional deficiencies that have to get remedied somehow or else people have health problems.

现在,我不是,我并不希望你们能记住这些细节,它们不过是作为一个例子来拓宽,由于依赖某种食物而导致营养不良的问题,要采取弥补措施,不然会引起健康问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"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 way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

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