0 present participle of sideline --
1 If a sports player is sidelined they are prevented from playing or competing, and can only watch: --
He was sidelined after criticizing the policy.
Johnson has been sidelined through injury.
To focus on trafficking only as crime means sidelining the support and services needed by the victims of trafficking.
I doubt very much whether they would regard the suggestion of some kind of sidelining or censoring procedure as a workable solution.
Presumably he was a party to the sidelining about which he is complaining?
I am merely pointing out that there was sidelining.
He asked them to be particularly frank, and he said that because it expected them to be frank we would be particularly careful about sidelining.
They want to look at the first statement of the evidence to see whether they want to request sidelining.
The creation of the agency represents an enhanced status for teacher training, not a sidelining or relegation.
It may be consistent with what we believe is the hidden agenda; namely, the sidelining of local authorities.