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  • verb Present participle of sideline.

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Examples

  • Production costs were out of control on Batman (A Huge hit) and budgets were getting tight so this was also a factor in sidelining the Green Hornet.

    Seth Rogen's Green Hornet Hype Begins With a Logo « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • You conspire in sidelining and making invisible religious liberals -- the folks who brought you the Underground Railroad and the civil rights movement, all those pastors of those goofy, inoffensive, whitebread denominations -- the Congregationalists, the reform Jews, the Muhammadiyah -- who married a lot of those couples in San Francisco and Massachusetts who recently stood up for their civil rights.

    Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

  • The former Foreign Secretary, Muchkund Dubey, however, called the sidelining of the 11 players "totally irrational," considering Pakistan was the World T20 champion.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The former Foreign Secretary, Muchkund Dubey, however, called the sidelining of the 11 players "totally irrational," considering Pakistan was the World T20 champion.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Although the minister denied actually riding an elephant, his visit was interpreted as a "sidelining" of organisations and individuals lobbying against the elephant safari industry.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The ANC's KwaZulu-Natal department of inflicity said in a statement on Monday that the "simultaneous resignation" of Mdlalose, Jiyane and Myeni, and the "sidelining" of party stalwarts Walter Felgate and Correctional Services Minister Dr

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Kriel and the African National Congress have reached a new low after his "sidelining" in Lausanne during Cape Town's abortive

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • David Cameron, the Conservative leader, has accused Labour of 'sidelining' elderly voters and promised that older people would play a full part in society under a Tory government.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • David Cameron, the Conservative leader, has accused Labour of 'sidelining' elderly voters and promised that older people would play a full part in society under a Tory government.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • February 17th, 2010 DHAKA - Malaysia is hiring over 100,000 workers from Nepal, "sidelining" 55,000 Bangladeshi workers whose visas were cancelled in March last year, a newspaper has reported.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010

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