But when you pare down the legal issue Ms. Reno was considering, it was whether somebody lied about something that was peripheral to the original issue, which wasn't all that big a deal to begin with.
Dewey observed that small-scale political communities (for example, the New England township), a crucial site for the exercise of effective democratic participation, seemed ever more peripheral to the great issues of an interconnected world.
This is not an issue peripheral to the gospel, or a matter of a few isolated proof texts.
Since the start of the on-going nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 powers and Iran, players from all sides have come out to say that there is no room for discussion of human rights at this point in time and that any discussion of issues peripheral to the talks will risk sinking the negotiations in total.
Although he's had peripheral exposure to the issue as chairman of Orange County, Fla., he won praise for improving public safety, promoting cleaner neighborhoods, and understanding the needs of children and families.
On this view, social issues are peripheral to the challenges of corporate management.
RA has systemic manifestations, and a number of investigators have studied gene expression levels in peripheral blood cells to address the issue of whether disease characteristics correlate with gene expression levels in peripheral blood cells.
The curriculum also teaches that slavery was only a peripheral issue to the American Civil War (Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was 'side issue' to Civil War).
Writing for the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik argued that Rodger's "woman-hating philosophy" is a "peripheral issue" to the topic of gun control.
For others, such as recreation stakeholders, the issue is considered peripheral to their primary interests.
That the killer in question was in the grip of a mad, woman-hating ideology, or that he was also capable of stabbing someone to death with a knife, are peripheral issues to the central one of a gun culture that has struck the Martinez family and ruined their lives.
