But he and his party were clearly in no mood to make an issue of it.
Outside the West, hardly any nations care to make an issue of civil and political rights in other countries.
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"I cannot see its impact on China's international image unless someone wants to make an issue of it, " Qin added.
Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.
Shaheen speculated to a Washington Post reporter that Obama's past could make him unelectable if the Illinois senator wins the nomination and those dastardly Republicans, who are famous for their dirty tricks, decide to make an issue of Obama's admitted past drug use.
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So there are certainly is an effort to make it an issue.
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Her request makes clear that following Netanyahu's brilliant triumph in Washington, Democrats realize that the president's poor treatment of Israel is an issue that will harm them politically if the Republicans decide to make it an issue in next year's elections.
Yet, despite being almost 20 points behind this summer, Mr Kilpatrick won an unlikely victory and he did so in part by finding clever ways to make race an issue.
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Attempts to somehow make an issue out of the price for the military airlift are also absurd.
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And no wonder many leading Republicans are praying that the Democrats will try to make terrorism an issue in November's elections.
But he did not pursue much of Mr Giuliani's education agenda, which makes it hard for Hillary Clinton to make education an issue in the Senate fight.
One of the most endangered GOP Senate incumbents, Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has already tried to make it an issue in his race against Democrat Bob Casey, who opposes the surveillance program.
The London conference and the row it has caused between Britain and Israel have had little impact on the election campaign mainly because the opposition Labour candidate, Amram Mitzna, declined to make them an issue.
It is to make it an election issue, get elected and change the law in parliament.
For example, has he asked Organizing For Action, his outside group, to make this an important issue?
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The paper says the former European Commissioner, Lord Brittan, has warned Mr Hague that he's wrong to make Europe an election issue, because it wins few votes and highlights Tory divisions.
Washington, however, has the ability to make that laissez faire attitude an issue--and to nudge Europe toward taking a more activist stance on altering the Iranian regime's domestic behavior.
Contemplating this chaos, Republican strategists are increasingly inclined to make foreign policy an election issue.
Religious representatives are due to make submissions to an Irish parliament hearing on the issue of abortion later.
If Democrats want to make the CTBT an election issue, let them.
Most of the time they allow Members of Parliament to make a stance on an issue, without having it become policy, or even debated in the chamber.
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It is inappropriate to make race and class an issue when Hurricane Katrina affected most acutely the poor of a city where nearly 63% of the population is black.
But that doesn't mean -- going back to the sort of overall premise of his speech -- that we can't or shouldn't continue to make progress to deal with what is an important issue and a priority of his.
And we are expecting tomorrow an American Muslim group to make their way to Baghdad and issue an appeal on behalf of her and her family and American Muslims to have her released as soon as possible.
All that counted was whether his client could use that insight to make measurable progress on an important issue.
Nevertheless, the truncated campaign hardly allows voters enough time to learn what they need to know to make an informed decision on such a big issue, especially as they have some tricky dilemmas to resolve.
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And while some settlements do require cash payments by the humans who made the decisions leading to shareholder losses, he said, in general the only choice an insurer can make is to refuse to issue a policy.
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