Everything else is a subsidiary issue.
And if climate change is a bridge too far, you can tweak the strategy to "go right" on subsidiary issues, like developing renewable energy.
Even "subsidiary" issues, such as shoring up the Social Security system & trying to contain the costs of hospital care, are hard.
But Mr. Santorum did take an aggressive approach on a subsidiary issue, saying on Wednesday that if Puerto Ricans do opt for statehood, they must make English their primary language, landing himself in hot water.
When she was governor, she did what very few female politicians do, and ignored all the subsidiary issues in order to put all her bets on one big policy payoff in the form of a new state energy policy.
"Although only a subsidiary issue in Heritage Oil's ongoing litigation with the Ugandan government, it is a fact that the process of re-domiciling one of Heritage Oil's subsidiaries from the from Bahamas to Mauritius had begun long before the completion of the transaction that ultimately gave rise to the tax dispute with the Ugandan government.
The report then focuses on the subsidiary issue of jobs, important because of the political traction is has, because however much money is pouring into the exchequer from skilled migrants there is no guarantee an individual worried about their own job prospects will benefit, and because, notes the Committee, "previous academic studies differ in their conclusions".
Although the long-term morbidity at the radial donor site is often relatively minor, and to most oncological patients, the morbidities may be subsidiary issues, prolonged wound healing causes undesirable inconveniences and poor esthetic results [4].
These are all important, but subsidiary issues.
One of the subsidiary issues in the case is whether the proponents of Proposition 8 are proper parties to the lawsuit.
