Pre-1991, economics took a back seat to military concerns when it came to deterrence.
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He eventually took a back seat, becoming executive chairman and handing over day-to-day operations to Scott Caldwell.
Serious reform took a back seat to the robust economic growth China experienced over the last two decades.
In this atmosphere of improvisation and chaos, it is perhaps not surprising that accounting procedures took a back seat.
But over the years, exercise took a back seat to Janney's evolving career.
Non-trophy canvasses took a back seat at both modern and contemporary art sales.
For once, work took a back seat as the romance of the cup swept across the town and those who live there.
For a time, though, the central question of the island commonwealth's status took a back seat to a controversial amendment by Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.
In a bid to repeat their 2007 campaign tactics, the opposition parties took a back seat, leaving the student movement to spearhead rallies and marches.
The luxury marque was a finalist for the top Car award in 2008 with its CTS, but took a back seat to the Chevrolet Malibu.
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Perhaps, Calderon suggested, issues important to Latin America took a back seat in the U.S. after the 9-11 attacks, but he said he'll tell Mr. Bush better late than never.
The second shift, Wally said, is that once his son decided he wanted to be a great golfer, everything else, including the basic structure of the family, took a back seat.
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Economic problems and the technocratic appointments required to solve them took a back seat in the face of preserving the delicate political balance among Jordan's various tribes and regions, and among native and Palestinian Jordanians.
It took a back seat to Black Friday.
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Let's remember that after the George W. Bush administration went into Tora Bora looking for bin Laden and didn't find him, the search took a back seat to going into Iraq and getting Saddam Hussein.
Her marquee causes the "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity and the "Joining Forces" effort to help military families took a back seat last fall as she campaigned doggedly for President Barack Obama's re-election.
For the first time in the memory of most people in the enterprise computing and software business, Oracle Open World took a back seat to a whole new industry event, this one dedicated to the Cloud and to Big Data.
Unlike the center-stage income tax, where the political volleying over bracket thresholds dominated the news, reporting on potential changes in the estate law, while impacting significantly fewer taxpayers, took a much welcomed back seat.
That became clear as soon as I took my seat at a Knicks-Nets game a few weeks back.
He took his seat at the back of the room, in a very warm jacket - a must for a trip outside of the Helsinki hotel.
Wynn, concerned that this could endanger his casino license in Nevada, forced Okada out of his seat on the board and took back his shares at a 30% discount.
"He was away for over 70 years and he took us back into the theatre, sat down in the seat where there used to be a bench and as he was sitting there he suddenly remembered a song which a pantomime dame had sung to him and he sang it for us and we recorded it, " said Mr Morris.
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