Sentence examples for sidelines rather than from inspiring English sources

"When the noise gets loud it's better to watch from the sidelines rather than stay in the game.

Always interested in politics, he observed from the sidelines rather than becoming actively involved, until the early 1990s.

But other minority groups, including Asian Americans, have largely watched from the sidelines rather than screamed in the streets.

In other areas, too, Caldwell has a tendency to heckle from the sidelines, rather than grapple with dilemmas.

His style was often to mismatch melody and words, or sing flat, or comment as if he was on the sidelines, rather than in the song.

Others suggest that the Socialists, who eventually again called a boycott, prefer to carp from the sidelines rather than enter the fray.

As a fullback, there are more times now that I'm watching from the sideline rather than in there lead blocking.

It probably wouldn't have mattered to the visitors anyway; this week, the targets were more likely to be the players and coaches on the Eagles' sideline rather than members of the equally disappointing Panthers.

Schwartz, a former college linebacker, calls the defensive signals from the sideline rather than the press box, so he can look at his players and gauge their physical feedback.

Groh is clearly weary of the notion that everything he does this season will be viewed through a prism of what might have happened if Parcells had stayed on the sideline rather than moving into the Jets' front office as the director of football operations.

Still, it's hard to imagine that Democrats wouldn't be pleased to meet a bunch of Republican aspirants who could easily be caricatured as sideline hecklers, rather than as elected leaders who have had to confront the same crises as the president himself.