Is slaveholding, in the end, the sole issue by which we judge Presidents?
The sole issue at trial was the amount of the award.
His sole surviving issue was a daughter by his second wife.
The sole issue seemed to be whether the deal would be done now or down the road.
And it is the sole issue where opposition has not grown since the middle of the decade.
"He's become the sole issue, a public obsession, so until he goes nothing else will happen," the diplomat said.
The evidence also engaged article 8, but that was not the sole issue to decide.
"I do not wish slavery to become the sole issue in this campaign," Lee said.
The parties characterized the sole issue in the case as one of statutory construction.
On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary.