Synonyms for burning question

The tent and its future position was the burning question with him.

This is the burning question with all of us, with you in the desert as with us up here under the Pole.

The place which the Negro is to occupy is still a vital and burning question.

The Assembly was engaged on the burning question of the government of the colonies.

To Janie the burning question to be decided was the possession of the bookcase.

In the first days of 1776 independence had become a burning question.

And there is an answer to our burning question, a simple, real answer.

This was the beginning, as far as was then possible, of the burning question of to-day.

No conservative position on the burning question was taken by either.

At Bruges the burning question for the moment was the question of the Franc.