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Sentence Examples Left with nothing but the clothes on his back, he was shunted between neighbours in Ruxley Lane and grandparents in Clapham and Croydon. As the second vehicle was shunted to the side of the road, officers saw Smith apparently waving a weapon. The train shunted forward and back unbalancing the mouse and forcing him to grip my arm with his sharp claws to avoid falling to the floor. The car was shunted backwards by the force of the impact and collided with the black Ford Fiesta directly behind it. Then one morning they awaken to find wild animals in an abandoned circus train which has been shunted off to the wrong station. The trouble with labelling fiction is that it can get shunted into the sidings of literature. It was hit when the car immediately behind shunted into his vehicle after it was banged from behind by a third motorist. Efficiency and continuity probably do require that the train be shunted into a well-prepared and easily accessible Belgian siding. She was shunted from the rear on her way to the flag and had a nasty bang into the bank just before the finish line. The train was shunted onto a siding and wreckage was strewn along 200 yards of track. He wasn't in so much of a hurry to leave and managed to kiss and hug us all before being shunted off to make his plane. Originally sited in the Guildhall, it was soon shunted off to Exhibition Buildings, then, 50 years ago, to West Bank Park. He was given 18 games, before being shunted off on loan to Lille, where he remains. We've had press conferences actually not shunted to one side of the annex but in the main reception rooms of the palace. In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause. He shunted firmly into the sidings the prospect of granting long-term rights to run certain services, seeking to speed the pace of improvement. Horse race politics dominates the political gabfests, with corporate power shunted to the sidelines. Actually, Bansal had shunted Tirkey to the right-back position from being a left-half. The train operating companies have shunted all the blame onto Railtrack and have received compensation for delays. He ploughed into a metal container, which was shunted 60 ft before coming to rest within inches of the bungalow. Show More Sentences For far too long now, the youths have had the feeling of having been shunted into the position of secondary citizens. When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane. Travellers are shunted into sites that are like urban slums, only without the amenities. The train was eventually shunted to Kildare where it was left standing for another 40 minutes or so until a replacement engine arrived. Tenants who get behind with their council house rent will be shunted to the back of the queue for housing improvements under a new scheme. In Ohio, more than 155,000 voters were shunted to these second-class ballots. Special trains were shunted into the sidings about twice a week with building materials for the aerodrome which was being built then. Eventually got to work 35 minutes late, once the offending train had shunted into the sidings. Equally ominous was the manner in which the French forwards shunted the Scottish pack off successive scrum put-ins. To top it all, heads of civic organisations were shunted out to inconspicuous postings when major projects were in crucial stages. Tsipras quickly read the runes, reshuffled his negotiating team, and shunted Varoufakis aside. Up to now if you had political pull or you could pressurise those who had you shunted yourself up the priority list ahead of schools in greater need. There is nothing sustainable or conscionable about a system that treats the elderly as liabilities to be shunted between reluctant authorities. The delegation wants social services reformed so as to stop people being shunted from pillar to post. Their fear of being shunted aside has led them to armed conflict as a way of calling attention to their problems. Game 39 was last seen being shunted into the siding of a five-year deferral, but privately its creators still believe it will re-emerge. He shunted power from his shields to engines and throttled to full. Finn has the physical gifts and the brains but he appears to have been frazzled and worn down, shunted into a siding by circumstance. The North Korean side said the accident was between two train wagons that were being shunted on a siding, not a collision of two trains as had been previously believed. At Steeton railway station at a quarter to five on the morning of October 11, 1943, the Leeds-Edinburgh express collided with a freight train being shunted into a siding. Show More Sentences Details are sketchy, but it seems that on Thursday, two trains carrying high explosives were being shunted in a freight yard, when they came into contact with a power line. When it was determined not to be a Rembrandt at all, it was shunted off to a hidden corner The painting hasn't changed, but the meaning of it has for its viewers. It's also trying to reabsorb all those millions of workers that were shunted into unemployment during the recession. Its die-hard Marxists and its nationalist faction are being shunted aside in favour of younger candidates with a softer, social-democratic image. They could have been used to help the real people who have been shunted aside in this budget. No, this decision is being shunted to Seville where we are to get a resolution. Without parity, issues affecting women time and time again get shunted aside, issues such as child care, pay equity, violence against women. The best of the superheroes of the Hero Corp agency has been shunted aside in a top-secret site in the far-away French countryside! Their car was catapulted into a tree after being shunted from behind by a van driven by a man so drunk he could not walk in a straight line, a court heard yesterday. By focusing on national interests, the interests of ordinary people are shunted aside, suffering in the long run. Keighley's pack was seldom outplayed by Scarborough's robust efforts up front, even though it was shunted backwards from time to time in the scrummages. When these working-class allies tried to send a delegation to the capital, hostile railway workers shunted their train into a siding and left them stranded. Their sedan collided with an articulated lorry already in the outside lane when they pulled out to overtake and were shunted into the path of an oncoming mini van. The result is that patients from far-flung areas have begun to displace local patients, causing the latter to be shunted elsewhere or simply refused admission. A surfeit of properties being shunted onto the market by owners keen to cash in and growing concern over the number of Leith harbour developments are being blamed. Autograph seekers who had waited outside in the rain for hours were shunted aside by thuggish bodyguards as Mr. Crumb was whisked into a stretch limo. After the merger of her company, Anna, a divorced mother, finds herself suddenly removed from her old position and shunted about, even humiliated. It is hardly a secret that one of the main reasons he was shunted out of the cabinet and into the party organisation was the friction that had risen between him and Advani. Since being shunted off York's main thoroughfare, the market has been out of sight, out of mind to successive councils far keener to court the big multinational stores. They do not want to be shunted aside and just asked to pay up. Show More Sentences This is not done to bamboozle reporters or members of the public, he said, but because the tribunal is shunted around to where-ever there is free space. Addressing long-term environmental or health impacts should not be shunted aside for short-term political gain from fast-tracked project approvals. If Brussels had actually been building railway stations, for example, instead of constitutional castles in the air, the European Union would not have been shunted into the sidings. In the traditional way they may be shunted two or three times during the journey, and will form part of different trains at different stages of their journey. Moving from Pescara to Genoa, he quickly found himself shunted out to the wings on a team that cycled through three managers in a single campaign. Turkey's accession process did not grind to a halt during the Finnish Presidency, nor was it shunted into a siding, to say nothing of the much predicted collision. At 1pm we would be shunted down to Old Oak Common train sheds for the carriages to be cleaned. And whether they're recent arrivals or freshly-minted graduates, they're being shunted off into low-paying jobs or into precarious underpaid self-employment. The opportunity was there and was shunted aside. Protection of transported goods: in wagonload traffic the wagons are joined together to form long trains, reorganised into new trains along the way and finally shunted into the consignee's siding. Yaki reaches it and finds its doors are locked, too, so he stands on a wagon-lit step, clings to a doorhandle, and stares at travellers safe inside as the carriages are shunted about. As a result of the obstruction imposed by the pulmonary stenosis, deoxygenated venous blood is shunted from the right to the left side of the heart into the arterial circulation. Her dramatic straightforward images awkwardly bring to the fore figures who were often shunted to the background, avoided, or ignored in daily life. On the Economic Governance Action Plan, it is necessary to point out from the on-set that the various elements proposed in the plan have not shunted the hallowed principle of respect for the sovereignty of the State. But all burials are now said to have been south of the border, raising the grisly possibility that long-buried human remains have been disinterred and shunted around Ireland. Dylan had slipped a gear in staring perplexedly at the blond woman, lost a moment in dreaming, and in that moment Robert Woolfolk had shunted away, out of the blithe park that seemed intended to contain anything but him. So the huge debts were shunted into the new state-owned company where the grim financial picture is still tucked away. The accounts for 2000 show RFF running at a loss of euro1.7 billion a year. Victims spoke of their frustration at being shunted aside, while the offenders who ruined their lives enjoyed all manner of rights and attentions. Non-technical discussions in misc often get shunted here. I wonder if the matter has been shunted backwards and forwards between different EU Commissioners without anyone in the end taking real responsibility for the issue. Show More Sentences Many Medoc and Pessac-Léognan properties have shunted more Merlot than usual into their second wines, reserving the more nuanced Cabernets for the First Wine. It appears that other national consumer health protections and food-related information measures could also be shunted aside, as governments press the WTO into ruling that they are inconsistent with the WTO agreements. But in this day and age, with coverage being shunted so quickly between providers and users, it is even more important that we maintain complete control of that coverage and that we know who has access to it. Commercial sponsorships are often shunted to off-peak times. There can be no question of an RS locomotive taking this train to Sarajevo, so it is duly uncoupled and one from Federation Railways shunted into place. A capillary electronometer was used, shunted by a condenser of.3 micro farad. With the king indisposed, York was again appointed Protector, and Margaret was shunted aside, charged with the king's care. The following year, a passenger train was being shunted into a platform and collided with three luggage vans already occupying the line. Offices have been shunted to less salubrious districts, while staff are replaced by a less knowledgable workforce. Welfare benefits are being cut or recipients' contributions drastically increased, and schemes based on solidarity are increasingly being shunted towards dependence on private funding. Examples from Classical Literature Gangs of pruners, pickers, and packers are shifted and shunted as the crop demands. He had been accepted at first, then coolly tolerated, then shunted to the outer edges. The potentiometer must never be shunted around the B battery or the latter will soon run down. We must be off if we mean to get round before our horse-box is shunted. Forward, something was shunted from an express car with a heavy crash. Heaven knows when the railway carriage would be shunted down. Then, if I were you, I should have the saloon shunted on to a siding and left absolutely untouched. I had managed to steer around the mega pile-up in front by going on to the grass, but I was shunted midships and that was the end of my day. Find more words! 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