Sentence examples for Smaller issue from inspiring English sources

Sadly, we are largely ignoring a huge tragedy unfolding there while obsessing over a tragic but much smaller issue here.

It was a smaller issue to the Assembly Democrats, but Senate Republicans feared blame for higher taxes.

G.M. and Ford have lagged behind Toyota and Honda in part because the American makers' research and development budgets have been crimped by high overhead costs, like health insurance premiums, which are a much smaller issue in countries like Japan.

But some Republicans have said compromising on the smaller issue now will only set themselves up for failure on the bigger issue of the 2012 budget and a vote on whether to raise the federal debt limit later this spring.

So it is a crime against humanity — but a far smaller issue for America than Iran's nuclear weapons program, and apparently not all that close "to our core interests". No wonder even the president's supporters in Congress are perplexed.

"I don't understand how Hoffa says he's bitterly fighting the Bush administration on Mexican trucking, which he says is his top priority, and then he takes Arctic drilling, which should be a much smaller issue for the Teamsters, and he uses it to legitimize Bush by giving him a major legislative victory," Mr. Pope said.

Smaller issues, often considered as construct validity threats, are related to the auxiliary tools and processes used to measure code coverage and mutation scores such as slightly diverging results observed with different versions of the code coverage tool.

Smaller and easier issues are tackled first, building an area of agreement, which is then stressed to create a stake in success, whereas harder issues are postponed and played down.

Smaller rocks matter, too.

Smaller deals are another issue: In MayElf announced a $4.6 billion offer for Norway's Saga Petroleum, but it faces competition from Norsk Hydro and Statoil.

Smaller size, smaller sound.