The controversies that had divided the parties earlier were still very much live issues.

What she wanted more than anything else at all was no longer a live issue.

That question can be left for a future occasion when it gives rise to a live issue.

Some have relatives for whom welfare fraud and reform are live issues.

The relationship between the two ways of being was, however, always a live issue.

Something that is being talked about in the newspapers at the moment can be a "live issue".

This may well continue to be a live issue.

Reference has already been made to the fact that it is no longer a live issue.

I would also like to say something about something that is very definitely a live issue.

Martha's mother, Dorthy, has done what she could over the years to keep the death of her daughter a live issue.