The topic was such a fringe issue within the Republican Party that in 2011, conservatives, including Ann Coulter, now a vocal Trump supporter, called on Mr. Trump to stop pursuing it.
The behavior of such sovereign wealth funds, a fringe issue last year at the World Economic Forum, has become a prime topic.
It is no longer a fringe issue.
Forman's mistake, in this account of a year's globe-trotting with her husband, is to seek out self-consciously fringe topics — Tongan transvestites, Kazakh Tolkien nuts — in the hope that exoticism will prove enlightening.
"Please, as fellow human beings of this great planet Earth, disclose all known information on space/UFO's because the world needs to know," wrote sprinter5160 on the site, whitehouse.gov/open, which attracted thousands of similar comments on fringe topics.
Even though an abandoned WordPress blog is truly one of the saddest things I can think of, the great thing about researching these fringe topics is coming across blogs you never knew existed.
However, assuming that individuals switch away from harder topics that they do not master, it is reasonable to assume that learners in a self-directed system such as ALEKS will eventually complete most of the "low-hanging fruit" and be left with a fringe of challenging topics that slow down progress.
Mr. Griffin is a fringe politician.
Oilmen may think CERES a fringe group.
She thought it was a fringe thing.
