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Nelson will never take a backseat to anyone.
Additionally, pushbuttons in the rear panels allowed backseat passengers to unlatch the rear doors electrically.
The car was a two-door model and the women were sitting in the backseat.
Ironically, too, the music that for so long took a backseat to the singers, now took the lead.
Two of the men jumped out, grabbed her, and threw her into the backseat.
Standard equipment on this model included a bar cabinet with crystal decanters and goblets, intercom, an electrically operated division and a backseat sunroof.
All his brilliance and scientific accomplishments take a backseat to his meek personality and no one seems to take him seriously.
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.
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.
