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The 29-year-old had been put on the back foot for the opening three rounds but eventually exerted pressure over Chudinov and secured victory after his opponent failed to respond to a barrage of shots.

The difficulty RBS has encountered in selling off these branches, intended to be rebranded Williams & Glyn, was referred to by Hammond when he announced that ambitions to sell off the remaining 73% stake had been put on the back burner.

But in a hearing on the proposed settlement, Judge Neal Biggers of Federal District Court questioned whether desegregation had been put on the back burner by the proposal, which seeks to improve three historically black universities.

On the television program that had stirred Mr. Frank, "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, the prevailing view was that any effort toward a resolution of Fannie and Freddie — government-created mortgage companies that were taken over by the government as the financial crisis mounted — had been put on the back burner during the overhaul of financial regulation.

Producer Mairi Sutherland said that the inability to secure funding meant the project - about Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight to the isles after defeat at Culloden - had been put on the "back burner".

As of early 1996, the Plan 9 project had been "put on the back burner" by AT&T in favor of Inferno, intended to be a rival to Sun Microsystems' Java platform.

In February this year, the Financial Times reported that one individual who had been in meetings in which the report was discussed said it had been put on "the back-burner of the back-burner".

Environmental concerns have been put on the back burner.

However, since the election, the issue seems to have been put on the back burner.

She has been put on leave.

"The military have been put on standby.