They will be given an issue to work together and compromise on a solution.

We were given a fresh issue of everything from caps to first-aid kits.

"We're giving him an issue to beat us over the head with," one aide said.

Republican strategists were confident the Assembly would never pass it, giving them an issue to use in the election.

But the cold war gave them a powerful new issue to exploit.

The solution was to give the family trust a new issue of preferred stock, paying $33 million a year in dividends.

The scandal gave Republicans an issue for the upcoming campaign.

It would give his Democratic opponents a potent issue to use against him.

They hope the economy and the Republicans' management of it will give them a winning issue.

"He gave the Democrats an issue that they really didn't have against Bush."