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single-issue

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sin·gle-is·sue (snggl-sh)
adj.
Of, relating to, or concerned with a single public issue, especially a controversial one, to the exclusion of all other issues: single-issue groups; single-issue politics.


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The president of Catholics for Choice, Jan O'Brien, remarked on the US election results, "This shows that the majority of Catholics voted their conscience when deciding who should be the next president, and ignored the single-issue dictates of a few bishops who declared that it was unacceptable to vote for him because of his prochoice position.
In their "Evangelical Manifesto," the signers also criticized the excesses of the Religious Right and call for "an expansion of concern beyond single-issue politics, such as abortion and marriage.
Kirkby Residents Action Group now claims that the election campaign became, in effect, a single-issue vote on the Tesco/Everton development.
 
 
 
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