The ingredients range from the fundamental to the seemingly fringe.
But all this is a diversion from the fundamental choice at the election.
"Labor is using him as a red herring, to distract from the fundamental problem" of the pension fund's financial predicament.
Together they typify the maximising of every available ounce of talent from the fundamental cornerstone of making a team difficult to beat.
Michael Weinstein, the foundation's president, said last week that performers were playing Russian roulette and that moratoriums and screenings distracted from the fundamental issue.
The debate quickly ratcheted up from the fundamental worth of, say, Brian Wilson's work versus J. D. Salinger's to Beethoven's versus Tolstoy's.
Some say we have taken attention away from the fundamental divide between "middle" and "working" classes at the centre of so much of our thinking about class.
All this is very entertaining, but it is a sideshow, distracting from the fundamental problems that dogged the inquiry from its inception.
from the fundamental estimate of the logarithmic derivative.
Judgements which are represented by numbers from the fundamental scale are used to make the comparisons.
Living organisms are complex systems that emerge from the fundamental building blocks of life.
