Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or concerned with a single public issue, especially a controversial one, to the exclusion of all other issues.
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Examples
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The Southern states seceded because Abraham Lincoln had been elected President, and he was what we now call a single-issue candidate, who had been nominated by a single-issue party, and that issue was to prevent slavery from spreading and, ultimately, to make it extinct.
The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 2011
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Palin is far Far FAR too self-absorbed to see that she appeals only to a narrow sliver of radical religious zealots and unintelligent single-issue voters.
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In choosing the odd title, the founders of 350. org wanted to communicate that their group was a science-based, single-issue organization.
Corbin Hiar: 10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen Corbin Hiar 2010
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In choosing the odd title, the founders of 350. org wanted to communicate that their group was a science-based, single-issue organization.
Corbin Hiar: 10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen Corbin Hiar 2010
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First, the ADL apparently has decided to eschew its glorious past and become a rigid single-issue organization.
David A. Love: Why Would the ADL Honor Rupert Murdoch? David A. Love 2010
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The alternative vote makes it easier for independent-minded people, inside and outside political parties, to be vocal about the environment and for single-issue parties to spring up in support of change.
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By the early 1980s the Republicans were laboring under the weight of a single-issue religious test for heresy: abortion.
Frank Schaeffer: Abortion Tactics and Conflicted Moral Ambivalence Frank Schaeffer 2011
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Do oppressed minorities thwart the majority with single-issue voting, or shame the majority into changing its preferences?
Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By the early 1980s the Republicans were laboring under the weight of a single-issue religious test for heresy: abortion.
Frank Schaeffer: Abortion Tactics and Conflicted Moral Ambivalence Frank Schaeffer 2011
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He said the big society was invented as part of an attempt to decontaminate the Tory brand and that the party was now "recontaminated" because "in the past week voters have seen more clearly than ever this Conservative-led government in its true colours: a single-issue government making huge sacrifices of the things we value on the altar of deficit reduction".
David Cameron's 'big society' could be funded by savers 2011
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