Politicians and political advertising have instead focused on the explosive question of whether to require employers to buy health insurance for their employees.

And this is why the even more explosive question of slavery was simply taken off the table.

But his plan left unanswered the more explosive question of where a new Yankee ballpark would be built.

Whether it can become more responsive to its citizens' aspirations leads to the explosive question of a united Germany.

Earlier this week, the bishops had agreed to disagree over the explosive question of whether there should be female bishops.

Older people generally use more health care than young people, but whether they should pay higher premiums is an explosive question.

If it has, immigration could clearly become an explosive question.

But still they cannot seem to settle the strangely explosive question of whether they should all be paid the same amount for the same work.

Even so, he gave decent grounds for hope that he can be fair-minded on this explosive question.

Until now, when Mr. Wright had asked him a very explosive question.