Sentence examples for barely an issue from inspiring English sources

Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist in Los Angeles, said terrorism may be barely an issue next November.

He spoke out against segregation decades before the civil rights movement began, and was a fierce opponent of colonialism when that was barely an issue.

Russia's military campaign, which has had broad public support and has accounted in large measure for Mr. Putin's popularity, was barely an issue in the recent presidential campaign.

But the story that unites them is so, well, dopey, and so completely irrelevant that its incomprehensibility is barely an issue.

Charles Addams loved drawing eerie homes; Thurber was fond of domestic settings, living rooms, bedrooms; George Booth's garage-repair shops are a wonder to behold; and barely an issue of The New Yorker goes by without a business office drawn by Leo Cullum or a stark room executed by Bruce Eric Kaplan.

A surreal rom-com with barely an issue to its name besides the life-affirming power of love (McGregor's character is shot through the heart and lives thanks to Cameron Diaz's love, or some such nonsense), his third film was a stylish, saccharine mess.

Why, it is frequently demanded, do we continue to bang on about something that is barely even an issue any more?

The candidates for mayor could barely find an issue or raise a crowd in this confident and contented city, while a poll published one month ago found that fully two-thirds of New Yorkers expected life to be as good or better.

By '93, for example, I understood that barcodes were not a political issue and barely even an issue of gesture.

By '93, for example, I understood that bar codes were not a political issue and barely even an issue of gesture.

The convention was barely a side issue, although the party bosses — including Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley — fueled the street fires by trampling over antiwar delegations, including California's.