One critical matter on which the two sides agree is the need to reduce Russia's budget deficit.

I'm trying to locate a young lady, someone I must see about a rather critical matter.

Health care was once a fringe benefit, something to be considered after the critical matter of pay raises.

A decision will also have to be made on another critical matter: finding new sources of fresh water.

Many details remain to be worked out, including the critical matter of how the state will measure whether schools are meeting the goals.

Shoes would be a critical matter once he went back to daywork.

These critical matters must be addressed before construction can start.

"We've had such critical matters of education, but we couldn't turn out a crowd like this."

But there is one critical matter on which we find common ground.

But spends far too little time on these critical and difficult matters.