hot-button issue

NOUN
  1. an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions
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  • But if a nominee is asked about a hot-button issue like abortion or the death penalty, there is always the so-called "Ginsburg Rule" to fall back on. Analysis: Sotomayor quietly prepares for high court confirmation hearings
  • Media coverage of hot-button issues usually skirts this aspect of them.
  • While less polluting than many coal-burning power plants, the presence of such factories in China's densely populated cities has become a hot-button issue for educated Chinese. China closes chemical plant targeted by protesters
  • Why, oh why is 'manspreading' still a hot-button issue? Times, Sunday Times
  • Media coverage of hot-button issues usually skirts this aspect of them.
  • Student privacy has always been a hot-button issue in academe, and faculty are often on the front lines of this debate.
  • But does his willingness to press such a hot-button issue so early in his term signal an effort to change American hearts as well as minds? Top Stories - Google News
  • It is hard to imagine two snobbish East Coast intellectuals with lockjaw patrician accents being invited onto prime-time television now to opine on the hot-button issues of the day.
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