AT ISSUE Definition & Meaning

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at issue

In question, under discussion; also, to be decided. For example, Who will pay for the refreshments was the point at issue . [Early 1800s]
In conflict, in disagreement, as in Physicians are still at issue over the appropriate use of hormone therapy . This usage, from legal terminology, was defined by Sir William Blackstone ( Commentaries on the Laws of England , 1768), who said that when a point is affirmed by one side and denied by the other, “they are then said to be at issue .”

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But when the person whose health is at issue is a sitting public official—and especially when they’re the president of the United States—it’s more complicated than that.

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At issue is a fundamental dispute over whether the Constitution gave the president or Congress the power to set the structure of the federal government.

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“The pole at issue is compliant with avian safe guidance, as established by the Avian Powerline Interaction Committee,” Matt Nauman, a PG&E spokesperson, said in a media statement.

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At issue: Trump’s stated determination to deploy U.S. military force against Mexican drug cartels, six of which his administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

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At issue in this flashpoint of the debate over the Constitution was the specter of absolute, despotic authority, which American Protestants associated with the papacy, owing to views of Catholicism inherited from the Reformation.

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