| Feel free to take time off and put all inconvenient issues on the back burner. |
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| The budget negotiations, which were meant to dominate this month's European summit, will now be placed on the back burner. |
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| Why not put space exploration on the back burner until we have solved more problems here where real life is? |
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| For the moment I'm going to have to shove the whole question on the back burner and stop thinking about it. |
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| Other contentious issues may well keep the proposed law on the back burner during the current session as well. |
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| These projects were kept on the back burner to avoid inconvenience to citizens, especially in traffic flow. |
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| He went on to say that he had absolutely no doubt that the issue would have been put on the back burner by the Government without the campaign. |
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| It's just one of those things on the back burner that you get around to eventually. |
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| But they've put that on the back burner and use their voice to spew political rhetoric and propaganda. |
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| For too long the problems of our rural communities have been put on the back burner, and thought insoluble. |
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| First, I would put my writing on the back burner until I became well established in science. |
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| The idea is thus to set the EU's priorities in a broader context, addressing the operational problems that have long been put on the back burner. |
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| That's one of the elements that gets put on the back burner for style and flash. |
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| It has been on the back burner for months and months and it is an option the government is considering. |
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| These issues are some that we all need to think about, get answers to, and not have put on the back burner. |
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| With that in mind, I always feel that my personal needs are put on the back burner and that I have to be all things to my children and husband. |
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| The project of introducing automatic translation on our site had been put on the back burner while we upgraded our site and built the database. |
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| Biodiversity has become a concept that has been put on the back burner, and it is now our task to try to keep it on the agenda. |
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| As Wim Kok has said, the dreams of catching up with the USA have been put on the back burner. |
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| Dermot joshed me on my memory lapse but he gave me an opportunity to write about that particular project which has been on the back burner for a while. |
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| The international community could not afford to place disarmament and non-proliferation on the back burner. |
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| For instance, we are currently putting expansion to South America on the back burner. |
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| Equally, economic growth should not become such a dominant goal of development strategy that social policies are left on the back burner. |
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| With such a concept, one can imagine that the makers of this success have other projects on the back burner. |
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| Decision makers react stupidly, putting this issue on the back burner and withdrawing from initiatives already under way. |
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| Thus, it may well be that the only solution is to put the work on the back burner. |
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| Issues regarding their wellbeing and their human rights can no longer be kept on the back burner. |
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| Singapore has reciprocated by putting several disputes on the back burner. |
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| After a succession of mealy-mouthed CBI presidents, content to simmer on the back burner, Sir John, a former Jaguar boss, has roared his desire for the heat of battle. |
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| There are so many issues that the opt-out has been put on the back burner. |
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| With respect to the current scandal, the ad scam and this corruption the government is currently trying to put on the back burner, I think perhaps the government needs to look inward. |
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| The Lisbon Treaty, an excellent treaty, is on the back burner and it will require a lot of goodwill to bring it back, if we are avoid marginalising those who have not understood it. |
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| I began taking an interest in my family history after the death of my uncle in 2003, and this passion is still very much alive and well, although it often simmers on the back burner. |
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| We don't want the immigration issue on the back burner. |
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| So that's kind of, I would say, on the back burner for now. |
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| The first is that with integration activities absorbing our employees' time and capacity for change, we had to put the development of a more integrated North American corporate responsibility approach on the back burner. |
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| That linkage sometimes results in the tendency to put the issue of working methods on the back burner while we wait for a comprehensive reform to materialize. |
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| Important issues such as identity theft and young offenders are being put on the back burner because this government is not allowing the chair of the committee to hold a 30-second vote. |
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| Despite its significance, though, unfortunately the issue to which I refer is one that is quite often placed on the back burner by our busy society. |
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| Even as consumer interest in rotisseries is heating up, some retailers are leaving the product on the back burner. |
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| It is a missed opportunity because you give the impression that the whole programme could be realised by the existing Treaty of Nice and that the constitutional treaty could be put on the back burner. |
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| While international decision makers recently multiplied measures to bring more regulation to financial markets, agricultural futures markets have strangely been put on the back burner. |
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| However, at present, the attention of decision makers and the media was focused on the fight against terrorism and the settlement of conflicts, while social and economic development had been put on the back burner. |
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| Our intense focus on the new IT platform and online i-DEPOT meant that the ongoing maintenance of existing applications had to be put on the back burner for a time. |
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| At the same time this sends a signal to the applicant countries that their efforts are worthwhile and that no issue will be put on the back burner. |
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| Nonprofits are good at recognizing the valuable contributions of volunteers. Recognition of paid staff, however, is all too often put on the back burner. |
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| Antoine's money troubles: on the back burner. |
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| As a result, tasks such as following up on the action plans developed with clients or entering data into systems have been put on the back burner because of a lack of time or resources. |
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| Inflation appears to be on the back burner for most investors. |
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| We cannot put the issue of security on the back burner. |
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| It was put on the back burner because the investigation was ongoing. |
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| That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities. |
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| Britain's application to join Europe had already been vetoed by De Gaulle, the Cuban missile crisis had been resolved, and Berlin was again on the back burner. |
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