1.   Despite all this, the election turned into a referendum on two explosive issues.

2.   Gay Marriage has emerged as an explosive social issue, with polls indicating that most voters strongly disapprove of it.

3.   Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman, is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.

4.   Although they deny it, there are signs front-running Republican presidential hopefuls are putting the explosive issue on the back burner.

5.   Another potentially explosive issue arose when Norton was asked on Friday about her views on drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve.

6.   Another potentially explosive issue arose when Norton was asked on Friday about her views on drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

7.   As in parts of the thirsty American Southwest, water is often an explosive political issue.

8.   As elsewhere in Europe, immigration is an explosive issue here.

9.   At Harvard, Martini deftly fielded a question about the explosive issue of gay and lesbian Catholics.

10.   Both are politically explosive issues.