Though not quite as incendiary an issue as abortion, the environment, too, transcends party lines.

Selling parts of the collection to build an endowment for, among other things, operating expenses is an especially incendiary issue.

The extraordinarily high taxes that Swedes pay are not the incendiary issue they would be in most other societies.

An example is the politically incendiary issue of Medicare spending.

Then there are the incendiary issues at the heart of the opera.

Rearranging history for dramatic effect is an incendiary issue.

Immigration, along with affirmative action, promises to become an incendiary issue in the 1996 elections.

But once the incendiary issue of arms sales becomes a matter for public and Congressional debate, no one can predict where it will end.

Israel remains an incendiary issue in Iraq, as it is throughout the Arab world.

Months later, the ash of this incendiary issue seems to be settling on a landscape that is changed, yet very much the same.