Sentence examples for to sidetrack from inspiring English sources

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to sidetrack

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To divert (a locomotive) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.

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Environmentalists accuse it of trying to sidetrack the issue.

These events helped to sidetrack the Soviet program and create an opening for the Americans.

You are out of here.' " Mr. Lewis viewed the complaints as an effort to sidetrack his investigators.

Home or away, the opposing players are doing what they can to sidetrack the kicker as well.

Bair became a thorn in the side of Treasury, which ganged up with the Fed to try to sidetrack her.

"Today," Mr. Musharraf said, "I want to disclose as to what conspiracy was being hatched to sidetrack democracy".

Now there could be three or even four more, ready to sidetrack everything else important going on in Albany.

Congressional Republicans, salivating over expected huge gains in November, have already miscalculated by futilely trying to sidetrack a financial-regulation overhaul.

There is abundant emotion in the film, but it isn't allowed to sidetrack Margaret's quest for answers or to achieve whatever justice can be salvaged.

Women in search of unattached men are not easy to sidetrack; they will undoubtedly be starting out any time now, singly & grimly for Guam, Alaska, etc.

From Gaza to Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, the disputed waters around China or even the euro zone, foreign crises threaten to sidetrack Mr Obama.The distractions have started already.

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