single-issue

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one:
single-issue voters.

There is such a thing in presidential primary politics as a single-issue deal-breaker.

“Interest groups do a lot better when they stick to a single issue,” Rapoport told The Daily Beast.

FIRE is the largest sector contributing to campaigns by far, easily doubling the next-highest single-issue sector, health.

The Amsterdam News, the main black paper, ran a front-page editorial headlined "Koch Must Resign" in every single issue.

Yet Latinos are hardly single-issue voters who care only about immigration reform.

Thus one transaction is all that is required in paying the postage upon a single issue of any regular publication.

Offering herself for admission into the Union as a Free State, she presents a single issue for the people to decide.

Editorials from a single issue of a newspaper can easily be secured by the entire class for this work.

You suppose, of course, that I stake my whole fortune upon a single issue, but it is not so.

General Adams used, mostly, the columns of the "Springfield Republican," filling six columns of a single issue.

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