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Counter-productive masters were put on the back burner (front burner did not become fashionable until the 1970s).
But reform was put on the back burner.
Representations made to them are placed on the back burner as they deal with the more momentous matters of how they can consolidate their hold on power.
But when moral issues are placed on the back burner of a campaign or partisan moral differences are blurred, the orthodox-progressive divide should be much less relevant to political behaviour.
Institutional reform has been put on the back burner, and there is no sign yet of agricultural reform.
All the schemes for electrification have been put on the back burner.
Those that demand careful consideration and attention are left on the back burner.
It has not been put on the back burner, and we shall seek the earliest legislative opportunity to push ahead with it.
The real solution —a major increase in resources —is put on the back burner.
Better still, it is no longer sacrilegious to ask the question: should the whole project not be put on the back burner?
To put it bluntly the matter has been put on the back burner.
I do not believe for a moment that it is adequate simply to put the problem on the back burner.
The problem is not on the back burner.
It now appears that it has been put on the back burner.
For the first time ever, oil was placed on the back burner as the leading trading commodity in the world.
