Sentence examples for extraneous issue from inspiring English sources

Charles Carrier, a spokesman for Mr. Silver, said, "What they are doing is denying the City Board of Elections what it needs to run the type of election New York City voters deserve and sacrificing that for an extraneous issue".

Until that point phone-hacking was an "extraneous" issue to News Corp's bid for BSkyB, Hunt told the inquiry, despite the fact he had received legal advice in April that the scandal could be relevant to the trustworthiness of News Corp management.

Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and is leading the conference committee, said he was frustrated that the bill's approval was being blocked by the abortion provision, which he described as "mostly an extraneous issue that purports to deal with a problem that, in large measure, does not exist".

The basic policy goal surely has to be that anyone in society, rich or poor, is entitled to expect that any dispute is settled on its own intrinsic legal merit and not by the extraneous issue of the different resources of the parties.

Then, one brings up extraneous issues (the stalking hearing) with a malicious twist.

When extraneous issues have emerged in the campaign with which he is uneasy, his tactic has been to prevaricate.

All sorts of extraneous issues are addressed in the intense horse-trading of the budget's final act, he said.

This week Mr. Obama came close to threatening a veto of legislation that combines the payroll tax cut with "extraneous issues" like the pipeline.

Like jurors in murder trials, Bafta judges are told to make their decisions based only on the evidence before them, ignoring all extraneous issues or instincts.

"I would be concerned that it would turn into a referendum on extraneous issues such as septic tanks, bondholders, banking crisis or decisions being made by the government, such as cutbacks," Mr. Varadkar said.

"We'd hope you would join us in that, looking forward to do the very best we can with positive thoughts and not dwelling on all these sorts of what are now frankly historical, extraneous issues".