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Nelson will never take a back seat to anyone.
Many people believe that it is completely safe for children to travel on the back seat of a car or on an adult's lap.
Ethical questions took a back seat in the search for the edge because the waters were uncharted and the tough questions could not be answered without experience.
From front porch to back seat.
Thus, social sector ministries are typically not afforded comparable power and social issues take a back seat.
Computation in comparison to amplification takes a back seat in its generality.
She was clearly quite simply someone who had far too much energy to take a back seat.
Formbased mechanical drills took the back seat to more meaningful practice activities, especially role-plays.
There is less interest in representing human behaviour accurately, where words take more of a back seat.
