1.   This issue has been obscured by recent events.

2.   But as hyperbole grows at alarming rates, obscuring political issues more and more, the civility of public dialogue has begun breaking down in the race for attention.

3.   However, parents should not let politics obscure the issue.

4.   The prosecutions were at best only symbolic and seemed so peripheral that the serious issues were hopelessly obscured.

5.   Then the account in the Liberation Army Daily obscured the issue further by saying the minister was acting on the orders of Jiang.

6.   The outrage which followed the killing has tended to obscure the issue in the general antipathy for the far-right.