However, he made a significant intervention in the last weeks of the Scottish referendum campaign as the polls tightened.
If such a significant intervention, and other positive moves forward, skewed a cool assessment of how Johnson did as a right-back, that was understandable.
The national living wage is a significant intervention in the operations of the free market, a big stick poked in the supposedly sacrosanct work of supply and demand.
For some, it will require a significant intervention, one that takes the form of a crisis to their health, marriage, family or career.
Through other funding streams, projects such as the Royal Opera House's training and rehearsal centre in Thurrock, Kent – a significant intervention in the local economy and culture – would not have got off the ground.
O'Sullivan said it was better for the Catholic church's future recovery that he now resign and "hand in his hat", a significant intervention which will increase the pressure both in Ireland and Rome.
There had been a significant intervention in his office: a new chief of staff (the former Queensland state secretary Cameron Milner), a new communications director (the promoted press secretary Ryan Liddell).
In a significant intervention in the debate in this paper last year, President Santos, host of the summit, spoke eloquently about the price his country had paid as a drug-producing nation servicing the demand for drugs in consumer nations.
I think repair on a high street level, from person to person, can be a significant intervention and actually mirrors some of the entrepreneurial behaviours we have seen in Ghana and other informal reprocessing economies.
In a significant intervention, eight ERG lawyers, chaired by veteran Eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash, have drawn up a document spelling out their demands, the clearest sign yet that they are prepared to fall into line.
It is the first time that a member of Labour's frontbench has called into question the legality of the referendum and has been seen by backbench MPs as a significant intervention.
