No doubt the argument will focus on a narrower issue: why the administration stuck so long to its story that this was a protest against a film that turned into something worse, rather than a preplanned attack by insurgents.
The decision, the majority wrote, was not "tantamount to giving a New York law extraterritorial effect" but addressed a narrower issue: whether a New York court should issue a subpoena compelling the testimony of a journalist "when such a result is inconsistent with the core protection of our Shield Law".
A large group who accept moral luck do not explicitly address the problem of moral luck as so formulated because they focus on what Nagel identifies as a narrower issue, namely, that of free will.
Analysts say even a narrow issue — but one that gives some voters a reason to turn out for him — might improve his single-digit standing in most polls.
You're elected, you vote your conscience on a narrow issue, but now determined opponents don't have to wait for the next election.
Cable said: "We are specifically going to have a look initially at a narrow issue around insolvency practitioners and their fees.
The new President viewed the compliance problems as a narrow issue of law; it was the sole responsibility of the FISA court, not the White House, to oversee the programs.
Meanwhile, the Serbian electorate should be asking why the government in Belgrade shot itself in the foot by bringing such a narrow issue to the international court with the overconfident assumption that the court's ruling would be in Serbia's favor.
But today, the government said that the appeals court had issued the correct decision and that there was "little prospect" that the justices would agree to take the case on such a narrow issue, particularly since in disputes involving judicial misconduct the Supreme Court has ordinarily deferred to the conclusions of the circuit courts.
As The Atlantic's Jessa Lingel and Tarleton Gillespie explain, what seems like a narrow issue has broader implications: "If we're willing to look past the glitter, the makeup, and the fabulous hair, the issue beneath is an important one … Must we be 'ourselves' online?
