Sentence examples for waiting in the background from inspiring English sources

Although torture wasn't a major topic on the syllabus, it seemed to be waiting in the background.

Waiting in the background is the Muslim Brotherhood, the mainstream Islamist group whose political party won nearly half of the parliamentary vote.

She's kind of waiting in the background, so maybe she's a damsel in distress, which she's so not".

David Brockton at Espirito Santo said: Costain has still not ruled itself out of the process and therefore potentially waits in the background should the deal not proceed, although we would expect them to review other alternatives.

Construction of the $90 million, 600,000-square-foot, 40,000-seat stadium at 615 Silver Lane began in October on a crisp fall day as the earth-moving equipment waited in the background.

On the question of whether China can continue to wait in the background while protagonists attack one another in a variety of conflicts, it has worked rather well for China thus far.

Archuleta received his ticket to the Hollywood auditions at the San Diego tryouts – held at Qualcomm Stadium at the end of July 2007 – with a performance of John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change" with judge Randy Jackson spontaneously joining in to sing the background "waiting" in the song.

Mothers were approached while waiting in the waiting room.

China has largely remained a bystander in Afghanistan -- waiting for the conflict to play itself out and waiting silently in the background for the right opportunity to enter the arena.

Although the jobs she took paid $6 to $7 an hour, she was infinitely richer than her co-workers: "With all the real-life assets I've built up in middle age -- bank account, I.R.A., health insurance, multiroom home -- waiting indulgently in the background, there was no way I was going to 'experience poverty' or find out how it 'really feels' to be a long-term low-wage worker".

Third, will China's approach to evolving conflicts -- to wait silently in the background while other parties slug it out -- continue to reap it rewards when the conflicts are over?