"back" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Other goals - to leave Monticello, move to New York City, put some of his grief behind him - are on a perpetual back burner.
- This year, leaders are practically begging House members to fill more than 20 vacancies on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a reflection of the fact that foreign issues are on the political back burner.
- Still, the Bush administration put North Korea on a diplomatic back burner as it followed its obsession with Iraq.
- However, without formal links to any of the political parties it withered, and devolution and the establishment of an assembly were put on the political back burner.
- As a consequence, the much-proclaimed special relationship with our former colony now finds itself on a not-so-special back burner.
- The national media is treated cordially but is relegated to a political back burner.
- No, he preferred to keep it simmering on a mental back burner; it was safer there.
- It was something else to keep on the mental back burner.
- The debate over Puerto Rican self-determination can no longer be forgotten on the political back burner.
- The problems of runaway medical costs and underinsured citizens are too important to be left on a political back burner.
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