Meanings of explosive issue in English

Rationing healthcare treatments to control costs is regarded as an explosive issue in politics.

Executive remuneration has become an explosive issue, the Guardian quoted an unnamed shareholder as saying.

Pension reform is an explosive issue in France.

The Government has sidestepped the potentially explosive issue of increasing charges for people in long-term residential care.

With the explosive issue taken care of, Grant turned and studied the crater for the first time.

A key factor during the war, rows over who can vote have rekindled the explosive issue of Ivorian nationality.

Immigration is the most explosive issue in French politics, yet president Emmanuel Macron decided to make it a key theme this autumn.

Environmental groups have shied away from linking population growth and its possible impact on the environment because it is such an explosive issue.

Sir, - Vincent Browne (Opinion, November 18th) highlights a potentially explosive issue that has been brushed under the carpet for years.

Yesterday's debate in the National Assembly regarding Europe's migration crisis was surprisingly tepid, considering that immigration is the most explosive issue in French politics.

It has also become a potentially explosive issue in the bitter campaign for a looming election on Feb. 24-25.

Affordable food is an explosive issue in Egypt, where millions live a paycheck from hunger, and economic discontent helped unseat two presidents in five years.

The prospect that some areas could turn into ghost towns was an explosive issue, but the gloom is lifting as unemployment has been nearly halved.

Bread is one of Egypt's most explosive issues.

With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters, no writer has so relentlessly confronted the explosive issues of our times.

It's an indication of the enormous gap between perception and reality when it comes to potentially explosive issues such as immigration that a new su(...)