21.   Explosive issues are raised but then only skimmed.

22.   Federal protection has become an explosive issue, largely because it removes so much management control at the local and state levels.

23.   For the Israeli government, which faces an election next year, the fate of settlers and sacred sites is an explosive issue.

24.   Glicksman discusses ways to minimize conflict, especially on potentially explosive issues such as planning the wedding, juggling holidays, money and handling criticism.

25.   He is a tolerant man, who skirts the explosive issue of abortion.

26.   If the Senate cannot agree on a bill, there is little point in the House taking up an explosive issue in an election year.

27.   In a bipartisan stampede on a politically explosive issue, the House overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to bar the export of American-made commercial satellites to China.

28.   In Boston, some advocates and attorneys who handle sexual abuse cases acknowledge that the archdiocese has done a significantly better job of dealing with the explosive issue.

29.   In Idaho this year one explosive issue in the judicial campaign was water rights.