Sentences with phrase «fringe issue»
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken heat from the press for rising homelessness, tensions with the police and his attention to fringe issues like restricting horse carriages in Central Park.
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Our core voters may be satisfied by delivery on fringe issues.
He did it, in part, by staking out liberal ground on seemingly fringe issues — such as allowing Hong Kong nationals with British passports to relocate to the UK after the Chinese handover — and making the running, forcing the Lib Dems centre - stage.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken heat from the press for rising homelessness, tensions with the police and his attention to fringe issues like restricting horse carriages in Central Park.
«In the last five years, especially, this has gone from being a fringe issue... to where it is now, where through investigations and media coverage and documentaries and corporate commitments to change, it's increasingly clear to the American public that what's happening on factory farms is unacceptable,» Freund says.
He secured a referendum on Scottish independence when it was basically a fringe issue for a few headbangers.
Firstly, the assumption that issues of governance and management are minor or fringe issues; secondly that quality newspapers have to court celebrities and drop informed comment in order to stay viable.
But let's not pretend that it is just a fringe issue either.
But there was more than a hint of Lib Dem purism in the thrust of his motion, as he insisted upon the green agenda being key to economic recovery, describing it as a «huge challenge» and a subject «no longer a fringe issue that Lib Dems stand for alone» and calling for «no more mixed messages.»
Considered a fringe issue just months ago, marijuana started getting its moment under the lava lamp courtesy of Cynthia Nixon and her campaign for governor.
This is not a fringe issue and should not be treated as such.»
«I do think that it's an acknowledgement that performance pay is no longer a fringe issue that they can just oppose,» Antonucci told HuffPost.
It was difficult back then to envision the Council on Foreign Relations fretting about maternal mortality or female genital mutilation.Back then, the oppression of women was a fringe issue, the kind of worthy cause the Girl Scouts might raise money for.
People get up in arms easily over tail and ear docking of dogs, but it feels like declawing is still treated like a fringe issue.
Others see it as a fringe issue, and it really has gotten little attention so far in this election cycle.
During the post-debate analysis, Crowley regretted not asking a question «for all you climate people» — dismissing climate as a fringe issue that doesn't have any bearing on anything else being discussed.
In case you thought data security for your law firm was a fringe issue, a Florida law firm just paid hackers $ 2,500 in Bitcoin to ransom back their data.