Sentence examples for was a peripheral issue from inspiring English sources

"This was a peripheral issue".

Despite some grand rhetorical statements on the importance of education for the individual and society as a whole, the truth was that education was a peripheral issue when it came to the analysis of economic phenomena, notably in terms of the labour market4.

He gave evidence in a televised session in which he stated his belief that the Sandline controversy was a peripheral issue and that the FCO should be focusing on supporting the newly restored Kabbah government.

Mr. Ridge argued that rather than being a peripheral issue, control over labor rules is at the heart of the new department's ability to address the country's vulnerabilities before a terrorist group strikes again.

According to the majority public opinion in Texas, anyone accused of crimes such as Buck's deserves to die and the question of whether that person receives a fair trial is a peripheral issue.

As the debate rages over the withdrawal of British and US troops in Afghanistan, there are those who argue that the appalling treatment of women under the Taliban is a peripheral issue.

Writing for the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik argued that Rodger's "woman-hating philosophy" is a "peripheral issue" to the topic of gun control.

I believe he is referring to the fundamentalist-modernist controversies of the early 20th century, of which creationism was merely a peripheral issue.

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).

It is not a peripheral issue, it is the issue.

From their perspective this is not a peripheral issue.