The word 'sidelines' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'sidelines' to refer to the area on either side of a sports field or other playing area, or to refer to the edge or periphery of a situation or activity. For example, you can say "The coach always stands on the sidelines during games."
The Polish player went to the sidelines in the 30th minute and when he returned 10 minutes later Madrid were winning 2-0.
Nick Clegg insists he will continue to make the pro-EU case, and battle to get the Lib Dems their fair share of credit for the coalition's achievements, showing that it is credible party of government that can rein in Tory or Labour excesses, rather than one sitting on the sidelines without power.
In this world of constant war, female characters have never been relegated to the sidelines.
Since its founding in 1934, the SNP had experienced its share of surges – the first in the late 1960s, another in the mid-1970s – but more often than not, the party found itself on the political sidelines, its claim to speak for Scotland ignored or disbelieved by most voters.
"[It was the] first time in my working life I was so close in an office where lobbying was done, political and otherwise, and I observed from the sidelines, read papers, read implications … and thought it's quite possible eventually it [the AWH deal] will succeed," he said.
Some protesters also waved yellow bananas, a riposte to pro-Beijing counter-protesters who, from the demonstration's sidelines and in pro-mainland local media, have accused them of being "fake Chinese" fomented by "foreign forces".
But in the case of Chilapa, locals believe that the masked men were simply members of a rival gang, Los Ardillos, who launched a daylight incursion into Rojos territory – while local and federal authorities watched from the sidelines.
For years, Catholic bishops had already been sniping from the sidelines at Merkel – a divorced, childless Protestant – saying that many of her policies (on stem cell research, for instance) had no grounding in Christianity.
"As UK voters go to the polls, uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the UK election is also preying on sentiment as cautious investors remain on the sidelines," said Andy McLevey of Interactive Investor.
McCluskey insisted that Unite did nothing wrong in the dispute over a parliamentary selection in Falkirk last year and added: "Let me finally say to those elements inside the party who seek to edge us out, or to the grandees who snipe from the sidelines, this is our party and we are going nowhere".
"So far, we have seen no evidence of systemic manipulation of the process," they said in a joint statement from the sidelines of the Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland.
