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It may even hit when your treatment is over, when you're trying to catch up with everything you had to put on the back burner.

As we did not have the money to carry out the project, we had to put it on the back burner.

If I had delayed my speech, it would have sent a message to the American people that their business had been put on the back burner.

But the issue seems to be on the back burner, at least for now.

The Fed isn't the only central bank that seems to be putting inflation worries on the back burner while fighting slow growth.

It will probably get you off the hook for a few days or months or keep the problem on the back burner.

The current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, the report warns.

Mobile operators see the new field as such a small part of their overall business that it gets relegated to the back-burner.

That change put the question of aid on the back burner again.

You're going to have to put that on the back burner till you return.

As the election campaign picks up pace, the president's focus is likely to drift and electricity may return to the back burner.

been happy to put them on the back-burner, favouring a charm offensive aimed at convincing neighbours that its rise poses no threat.

Interviewer: I've read that you put your career on the back burner and allowed his career to be more impoetant to you than your own.

She decided to attend Harvard, where she would study political theory and put her acting career on the back burner.

So things have been pushed on the back burner, and I feel guilty.

Make everything spending time with your spouse your priority and put all other activities on the back burner.

As we didn't have money for that project, we had to put it on the back burner.

By junior high, he opted to put modeling on the back burner and focus more on sports and school.

So here we are, with the greatest challenge facing mankind on the back burner, at best, as a policy issue.

It has been pushed on to the back burner as attention switches to the short-term need to create jobs and boost growth, that's what.

I heard him, but I was concentrating on my spin kicks, so I put it on the back burner of my mind.

The hostage had been put on the back burner by the American government.

I think it's being put on the back burner for now. All right, could someone hand me a copy of this month's report?

With the threat to national security in the foreground, issues of economic management are often put on the back-burner.

U. S. President Barack Obama pushed trade policy to the back burner while he concentrated on health-care and financial reform.

This year, however, has seen a troubling pattern of strong Chinese reaction over issues Beijing prefers to keep on the back burner.

It all came crashing in around me about 6 months ago after I'd let one too many things for me get shoved to the back burner.

Excellent article I believe that China's nuclear export ambitions may put safety on the back burner.

The political infighting has forced the discussion of the country's crippling fiscal deficit onto the back burner.

He was convinced that Israel was putting Palestinian issues on the back burner in favor of pursuing peace with Syria.

Instead of pressing China hard on its poor rights record, Mr Obama has put the issue to the back burner.

I'm afraid that means we'll have to put our plans to buy a bigger house on the back burner until next year.

'They're putting fuels on the back burner, pushing [large-scale production] back five years or so, ' he says.

Plans for a new sports complex have been put on the back burner.

For me, one goal that's been on the back burner for years is returning to writing short fiction.

Put financial speculation with family members or friends on the back burner for now.

SOmething urgent has come up, SO we put your project on the back burner temporarily.

The G20 agreement on another $250bn-worth has been made possible by the global meltdown, which has put inflation on the back-burner.

Fire up your computer and get to work on whatever project's been sitting on the back burner all year.

FULL-SCALE immigration reform is clearly on the back-burner.

His desires -- companionship and clean laundry -- are put on the back burner.

It's been almost three years. Don't you have anyone on the back burner that you've been hiding from me?

Joe, I know you're working on the Anderson contract, but let's put it on the back burner for now.

Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.

Stop putting your own needs on the back burner.

An earlier plan to cap the percentage of profits banks can pay to staff looks like it is on the back burner.

Though for now, sadly, that brilliant 'cat museum' idea is on the back burner.

LH: So that's on the back burner -- an English album -- for the time being.

Always put your own needs on the back burner.

I 'll put the car repaired on the back burner for now.

Job creation has been put on the back burner, as all of Washington is afflicted with deficit fever.

I don't think we will have time to complete it this year. Let's put it on the back burner.

But you can't always stay on the back burner.

49. Always put your own needs on the back burner.

You should put the plan on the back burner.

If you put relationships on the back burner this week that is ok, but we want you having fun.

That project is on the back burner for now, there are other important things I need to focus on.

They seemed high and we put it on the back burner.

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