In recent years the issue of reparations has exploded among nations wrestling with the past.

From that first internal suggestion of error, the issue exploded into a nationally trumpeted charge of fraud.

Of course, the issue would soon explode.

The issue exploded in the 1980s when tribal authorities excluded the freedmen from voting on the grounds that they weren't Cherokee by blood.

The issue exploded on the campaign trail today as a potentially divisive issue between the two Democratic presidential candidates.

And that's dangerous because sooner or later, these issues of Ivoirite and national identity could explode again.

But the international issue exploded today when the British press reported that the nurses lost their first appeal in a religious court late Tuesday.

The issue exploded in public on Friday, in an incident that one official here said was "more like a badly directed spy movie than anything else."

It was just about this time four years ago that the issue of drug testing in amateur sports exploded onto the international scene.

They had invented a new sort of screen for laptop computers, and now with Japan's products under a cloud, the issue had exploded.