So when did urban sprawl become such a heated issue?

The proposition was controversial because of its close proximity to heated political issues including race, immigration, and poverty.

I am an agnostic when it comes to the heated issue of global warming.

On the most heated issue of the session - the Shoreham nuclear power plant - no progress was reported.

When baseball season starts this week, a heated issue will return to the table: what wine goes with hot dogs?

Because the bridge is considered historically significant, this has become a heated issue.

It was a big incident and a heated issue for her.

But in 2004, the suspicious voter-registration cards put him into one of the country's most heated political issues.

Gun control has been a heated issue in recent months, after several bloody incidents across the country.

It was always the center of a heated electoral issue for ruling mayors in colonial times.