single-issue

single-issue
sin·gle-is·sue (sĭngʹgəl-ĭshʹo͞o) 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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