Sentence examples for Not a defining issue from inspiring English sources

Yet in the election campaign, Iraq has been a pervasive but not a defining issue.

Yet in the election campaign back home, Iraq has been a pervasive but not a defining issue.

He says the introduction of 1.5 billion people from India, China and the former Soviet republics into the global workforce over the last 25 years may have doubled its size to 3 billion, but that the phenomenon has reached its peak and so is not a defining issue.

But I'm increasingly thinking that it should not become a defining issue for his likely campaign.

Heseltine said the Conservatives should remember that Europe will not be a defining issue at the election.

He helped form the city's Black-Latino Roundtable some 20 years ago, and as president of the city's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union had been a champion of police reform, normally (though not this year) a defining issue in black Los Angeles.

I am sure they felt the need to discuss the rump of the KKK in the U.S. President Obama and his advisors have been obsessed about security policy not becoming a defining issue that hijacks the administration's domestic agenda.

Mr. Kumar hardly ignored caste, but unlike some rivals, he did not make caste allegiance a defining issue.

Unlike many Mexicans and other Hispanics in California and the Southwest, Cuban-Americans do not view immigration as a defining issue in the election.

"I don't think it should be a defining issue for our party," he said, adding that the party needed to be sensitive to different views about abortion rights.

As it becomes ever more clear that income inequality will be a defining issue in the upcoming presidential race--if not the defining issue--conservative economists and pundits are pulling out all the stops to persuade us that there's no there there.