1.   But Clinton is a longtime supporter of capital punishment who is preparing for a reelection campaign a time when crime is a simmering issue.

2.   California has more illegal immigrants than any other state, according to immigration officials, and how the state should deal with them is a simmering issue.

3.   The re-use of closed military bases has been a simmering political issue that may boil up now that Republicans will take control of both houses of Congress.

4.   Immigration rights have been a simmering issue since the handover.

5.   Lawyers for the city said the court missed an opportunity to rule on a simmering national issue.

6.   The simmering issue has been kept quiet, and talks headed by the high-ranking Nigerian officials are intended to keep it that way, the independent newspaper said Monday.