All sorts of extraneous issues are addressed in the intense horse-trading of the budget's final act, he said.

Not one dumb question or extraneous issue was raised.

Then, one brings up extraneous issues (the stalking hearing) with a malicious twist.

This truth is the basis of much shoddy politics- the injection of the extraneous and unnecessary issue.

She said "extraneous issues" should not be allowed to cloud the workings of the special sessions on workers compensation and school financing.

"Iraq will not allow anyone to deal with extraneous issues."

How typical of him to drag in extraneous issues.

They say that their leaders have been hijacking an important American foreign policy position over extraneous issues.

"The problem comes up when a group picks up an extraneous issue," he said.

For this reason we should not include in this regulation extraneous issues such as quality, nutritional value and so on.