| The media, of course, treats these incidents as an amusing sideshow, a bit of spice in an otherwise bland political soup. |
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| There was also a wide range of traditional sideshow attractions which included darts, hoopla and a coconut shy. |
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| Keith began his ascent in the circus, running a sideshow populated with freaks, strongmen, fortune-tellers, and other wonders. |
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| Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. |
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| This is neither a sensationalistic sideshow nor a sappy depiction of the disabled. |
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| I became very determined that the birth of my child was going to be a gentle affair, not a hospital sideshow. |
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| He is almost a sideshow barker for his car, and leaves many of the details of his imagination to his engineers to make reality. |
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| The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at. |
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| Lambert, then, adjusted to the sideshow, but the main event was new to him, more physical and demanding on the field than he had expected. |
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| The Tokyo Motor Show is not the antic sideshow of wacky and improbable concept vehicles it once was. |
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| The potential perjury obstruction of justice and suborning a witness is a sideshow? |
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| A sideshow hypnotist erases her memory of her life in the African treetops and convinces her that she and Lyle are husband and wife. |
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| Pop music blares as dodgem cars slam into each other and a gaggle of teenage girls in pink fur haloes giggles its way up sideshow alley. |
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| We already know the outcome of the election, give or take, but it is a mere sideshow compared to the importance of the referendum. |
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| A colourful sideshow alley took pride of place next to the equestrian ring and dagwood dog food tent. |
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| They would do well not to celebrate what may be a minor sideshow while preparations for the main event continue. |
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| The aforementioned yoga master at least provides some philosophical bric-a-brac to support his sideshow geek demonstrations. |
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| They are considered something of a sideshow in the struggle of corporate giants for control of markets and influence over the state. |
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| My personal opinion is that the whole issue's just a sideshow from what's really important. |
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| You take away the impression that you've been spun a shaggy parrot story told by a sideshow huckster, albeit with attention-grabbing skill. |
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| What used to be an important event in the City's calendar is now a sideshow. |
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| As we will go on to show the Ukip versus Conservative battles that are raging in the UK are only a sideshow as far as the UK is concerned. |
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| The severe criticism, which sparked something of a sideshow in early summer, was often wide of the mark and viewed from too narrow a perspective. |
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| The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations. |
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| Related: Cameron to publish EU referendum bill one day after Queen's speech So Ukip's feuding is not merely a sideshow. |
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| But Paris Combo didn't need to use any circus sideshow tricks to conjure up their lost heroes. |
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| Has he never watched that disgraceful sideshow of women standing in storefronts and people outside staring at them? |
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| The key role of the civil and solidarity-based economy, the non-commercial sector, is treated as a sideshow. |
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| Because the Raj case is the sideshow, not the main event, I'm skeptical it will be a layup. |
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| Once I turned on my recorder, Schwarzenegger was off on a ceaseless monologue, touting his book like a sideshow barker. |
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| But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation. |
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| The more I wrote about her sideshow behavior, the more I felt seeing it in person was my destiny. |
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| As a debate, this was a sideshow, 90 minutes of stilted silliness, an intermission interrupting the real deal. |
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| He's become a carnival barker in this whole twisted sideshow. |
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| Economists, bankers, and executives equated ad men with sideshow barkers, while scientists considered psychologists no better than fortune-tellers. |
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| Traditional wisdom has it that mass production relegated craft to an expensive sideshow, a distraction from the real needs to provide affordable products for the masses. |
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| It is a sideshow, a massively expensive distraction from the main game. |
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| We are seeing a sideshow today, where the Liberals are trying to divert attention from the media, from the spectacle going on in their riding associations, their nomination battles and their backstabbing. |
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| They taught the twins to play saxophone and transferred them from the sideshow to vaudeville. |
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| Retail rivals were carping this week that producers of the karaoke sideshow were name-dropping Tesco at every opportunity. |
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| An American circus-goer, gazing at the tattooed man in the sideshow, relives his own past of untold centuries back. |
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| Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating. |
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| The harsh reality is that the activities of the General Assembly risk becoming a sideshow to the activities of other forums if we fall out of sync with the relevant and pressing issues of the day. |
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| It was based on the input of 60 companies, and identifies a new mindset to help companies move beyond seeing increased accountability as a new cost or as little more than a worthy sideshow to running their businesses. |
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| Lotteries and contests: The use of games of chance, lottery devices, musical instruments and other sideshow practices is permitted only with written permission of the Organizer. |
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| The debate surrounding nuclear energy is a sideshow. |
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| Noting that one participant had earlier dismissed the issue of working methods as a sideshow, one discussant suggested that this was illustrative of the difference between permanent and non-permanent members. |
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| But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event. |
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| The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow. |
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| The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow. |
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| Now I don't really know what I mean by any of that, but it seems to fit the surrealist circus sideshow mood of the climate policy debate in Australia right about now. |
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| Where once stand-up was a sideshow to the riffs and rockstar histrionics on the main stage, a tiny tent to have a snooze in somewhere between the crepe stall and the Portaloos, this year comedy has truly taken over. |
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| The sideshow feat was a just a gaff, but the audience was too proud to admit they'd been fooled. |
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| Their disagreement is just a political sideshow when compared to the real issues at hand. |
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