Examples of backseat

• Lessons on grammatical rules, pronunciation, and the like - never mind pragmatic or sociolinguistic conventions - take a backseat to lessons on ideology.

• In contrast, speech perception and phonology, though objects of serious scientific inquiry, have at times taken a backseat in these grander debates.

• The rising middle class with its strong consumerist tendencies has meant that political awareness and political sophistication in general has taken a backseat.

• At the institutional level, narrow organizational effectiveness takes a backseat to distributive politics.

• Meeting the target of 10 million tons of sugar in 1970 became enshrined as a matter of political prestige and regime legitimacy, and consequently, economic rationality took a backseat.

• Gender issues continue to take a backseat in this sector, and levels of female involvement in fisheries bodies and associations remain very low.

• It is not for us to backseat drive through this sort of technical detail.

• I mention that only because it is notoriously difficult for husbands and wives to teach each other to drive except, of course, for backseat driving, which is often unstoppable.

• That agency represents an enterprise of the private sector with the council taking a backseat and it is worthy of funding under the urban regeneration grant.

• All his brilliance and scientific accomplishments take a backseat to his meek personality and no one seems to take him seriously.

• Standard equipment on this model included a bar cabinet with crystal decanters and goblets, intercom, an electrically operated division and a backseat sunroof.

• Two of the men jumped out, grabbed her, and threw her into the backseat.

• Ironically, too, the music that for so long took a backseat to the singers, now took the lead.

• The car was a two-door model and the women were sitting in the backseat.

• Additionally, pushbuttons in the rear panels allowed backseat passengers to unlatch the rear doors electrically.