Sentence examples for smaller issue from inspiring English sources

It was a smaller issue to the Assembly Democrats, but Senate Republicans feared blame for higher taxes.

G.M. and Ford have lagged behind Toyota and Honda in part because the American makers' research and development budgets have been crimped by high overhead costs, like health insurance premiums, which are a much smaller issue in countries like Japan.

"I don't understand how Hoffa says he's bitterly fighting the Bush administration on Mexican trucking, which he says is his top priority, and then he takes Arctic drilling, which should be a much smaller issue for the Teamsters, and he uses it to legitimize Bush by giving him a major legislative victory," Mr. Pope said.

What the Hicks analysis and later versions (notably Dornbusch-Fischer-Samuelson (pdf)) tells us is that technological progress in other countries can either help or hurt you, depending on which industries are affected; it also tells you to look at the terms of trade, which in practice means that it turns out to be a smaller issue than many people imagine.

"So is there really a way to know, up front, for sure?" Molly asks during one of Elliot's descriptions of how his algorithm works, and the question hangs in the air as applicable to both the scientific matter at hand and the larger (or smaller?) issue of their compatibility.

For the sake of illustration, assume that he also recommended another smaller issue, Outback Steakhouse, which is down 8%.

But on some smaller issues, he has strayed.

The smaller issues are just matters of style.

American officials also hailed progress on smaller issues.

Some of the smaller issues seem just as difficult.

There are the unceasing smaller issues and individual crises lost to history.