Sentence examples for an obscure issue from inspiring English sources

Perhaps this seems like an obscure issue.

He sounded the alarm about global warming, then an obscure issue.

Judge Strine's decision related to a contractual dispute but went off on an 11-page tangent about an obscure issue related to limited liability companies.

Why elevate an obscure issue that has as much to do with state's rights as it does with anything else to a centerpiece of a campaign that is supposedly focused on the weak economic record of the president, especially when the theme could even be construed as suggesting that the president has been successful in job creation?

Hodge, who became the scourge of multinationals in her time chairing the Commons public accounts committee, said: "Who pays tax and how much they pay has moved from being an obscure issue only discussed by tax professionals to one of huge public concern which is of interest to everybody.

Under the best of circumstances, it is difficult for an obscure issue to grab the attention of Washington's political leadership, no matter how important that issue may be.

The attention of a Big V microblogger can transform an otherwise obscure issue — a land dispute in a village, graft by a small-town official — into a subject of passionate national discussion and a headache for the government.

Republicans (Tea Partiers, especially) have latched onto an incredibly obscure issue (the "Export-Import Bank") and seem prepared to fight to the death over it during the upcoming budget negotiations, for some unfathomable reason.

This is not a new, obscure issue that should require more than two weeks' discussion to reach an agreement about steps forward.

The intensity of the conflict over immigration is on view in the contrasting arguments of pro- and anti- immigration forces on a relatively obscure issue, remittances sent by immigrants to their families in their native countries.

Thirty years ago, Heseltine stormed out of cabinet over the Westland affair – an important but obscure issue that had no public traction.