"You know what it takes to win the game and help the team," said one Democratic House operative, "but you are largely sidelined."

Thus, many old revolutionaries did not join Sun's new organization, and he was largely sidelined within the Republican movement during this period.

At this time Sun remained largely sidelined; and, without arms or money, was soon expelled from Guangzhou and exiled again to Shanghai.

Unlike the NFLY, the new YCL was largely sidelined by more radical youth groups aligned with the New Left.

Ludendorff was largely sidelined after her husband's 1937 death, as Adolf Hitler had long since broken from the general.

Meanwhile, big United States energy companies have been largely sidelined from direct investments in Russia's oil and gas sector.

Such conventional oracles were largely sidelined in favour of direct and detailed reportage of sources to the exclusion of corporate "spin".

The party was a minor force in parliament, however, and was largely sidelined by the radical farmer and labour movements of the late 1910s.

Secretary General Kofi Annan called publicly today for a rethinking of the international institutions that were largely sidelined during the Iraq war.

The left has been largely sidelined during the past three and a half years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.