It becomes a weird sort-of "backburner" achievement. From Wordnik.com. [Kill Ten Rats] Reference
Q Is that a backburner issue, I mean, or is that. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Well, diplomacy is certainly on the backburner now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009] Reference
Many a times we've been on the backburner for his job. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2006] Reference
Keeping the threat of military action on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Nossel: Iran as the Un-Iraq] Reference
"People used to put this stuff on the backburner," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Living Within Your Means] Reference
Let's put their views on the backburner for a moment shall we. From Wordnik.com. [In Contrast With Core Hillary Message, Carville Says He Thinks Obama "Will" Win General Election] Reference
Leslie C. is too talented to be wasting away on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. ["General Hospital": Leslie Charleson Fans Speak Out!] Reference
The FCC is still deliberating but he says it's not on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Indie Music Takes on the Majors] Reference
But global inclusion issues have always been placed on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Avard: Re-engage! International Journalist Helena Cobban On Post-Bush Foreign Policy] Reference
FOR PATIENT RIGHTS: It's a problem that has remained on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2007] Reference
It's something that's been put on the backburner the last of couple years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2009] Reference
You've got to just put that on the backburner and say that's the way it was. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Leroy Beavers, August 8, 2002. Interview R-0170. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
It has pushed the conflict in the backburner for many, you know, many countries. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007] Reference
Foreign policy and national security cannot and should not sit on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Rieckhoff: Biden and Palin: Make Military and Veterans' Issues a Priority Tonight] Reference
The entire Arab world has pushed the issue of a U. S.-led war onto the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Advantage] Reference
The veal stock roiling away on the backburner comes from the French Laundry recipe. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Nagrant: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Science Food] Reference
Do you think that she should be putting dating on the backburner at least for this year?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference
Perhaps all that talk of a new Terminator trilogy should be put on the backburner for now. From Wordnik.com. [Box Office Breakdown: Memorial Day Weekend Helps Make Ben Stiller into a Superstar! Meanwhile, Terminator Salvation Disappoints] Reference
ACOSTA: Duncan dismisses any notion that the economy will push education to the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2008] Reference
But again, willing to put that on the backburner, any of the Democrats 'positions are fine. From Wordnik.com. [evolver Diary Entry] Reference
But by and large, Miles, you'd have to say that really since 9/11, Asia has been on a backburner. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2005] Reference
Ironically, it is the relative success of the surge that has kept the Iran issue on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Iran really will be next] Reference
But since it will take a while to get the straighten out, trade will be on the backburner for a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Finally, A Southerner! Ron Kirk Will Be Obama's Trade Rep] Reference
The Iraq War became a backburner issue towards the end, and the campaigns 'display ads reflected that. From Wordnik.com. [McCain and Obama Used Web to Persuade in Final Weeks] Reference
But we can't let the longing to be a part of something bigger than ourselves simmer on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [Arianna Huffington: Announcing HuffPost Impact: Where News Turns Into Action] Reference
A Middle East peace process that is in at least -- has been moved to the backburner, if I can use that cliche. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2004] Reference
All of these kinds of things, they may have to do in a piecemeal fashion or just put on the backburner for a while. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009] Reference
Meanwhile, the real issues that will put Obama in the White House will spend another cycle or two on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. [New Movie Quotes Fellow McCain POW Saying McCain Not Fit To Be President] Reference
I do not see any kind of solution coming out of Dallas that will calm things down and put this issue on the backburner. From Wordnik.com. ['This Issue Is Going To Be With Us For A Long Time'] Reference
I have actually sold a movie this year but one of the best books I have written is sitting on the backburner of some inept company. From Wordnik.com. [jfloydking Diary Entry] Reference
As our current economy goes into meltdown and Iraq is put on the backburner, McCain is getting the same message from the electorate. From Wordnik.com. [Lynne Glasner: McCain And Goldwater Growing More And More Similar] Reference
"Everything I hear, 'Willie Parker is in the back,' 'he's the backburner,' he's this, he's that," Parker said Tuesday in the locker room. From Wordnik.com. [Willie Parker will get his chance to make an impression Friday] Reference
Warner Wolf, all you sports guys had suspicions that players like Bonds and Giambi were using steroids, but it remained a backburner issue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2004] Reference
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