point at issue

In the letter, the Cabinet Office said: "The funding offer will cease to be available to you if you knowingly seek to frustrate or undermine, either through your own actions or the actions of others, the government's position in relation to the inquiry unless there is a clear and irreconcilable conflict of interest on a particular point at issue."

These quarrels would almost always end in a fight between the parties, and those that whipped were supposed to have gained the point at issue.

Among canon lawyers in Moscow, Kiev and Istanbul, a key point at issue is an event that happened in 1686, giving Moscow authority over a then-flourishing metropolitan see of Kiev.

“But whilst I admire your caution, your method of advancing a step at a time, I submit that you have not yet touched the point at issue. We are all agreed that this person exists. The point is—where did he go?”

But in doing so, they will be conceding the central point at issue: that Trump has, indeed, become lethal to the party in many parts of the country.