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For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the side-lines, well, a lot has happened since then.

Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones: Rock God Meets Rock Child Cynthia Ellis 2011

Parliament should make its voice heard rather than standing on the side-lines as a passive spectator.

Tories warn of 'severe' consequences if UK abstains in Palestinian UN vote 2011

For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the side-lines, well, a lot has happened since then.

Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones: Rock God Meets Rock Child Cynthia Ellis 2011

For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the side-lines, well, a lot has happened since then.

Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones: Rock God Meets Rock Child Cynthia Ellis 2011

Standing on the side-lines, the rest of us believe it's all wrong-headed.

G. Elijah Dann: Kentucky Fried Bible Reading: Is Interracial Marriage Immoral? G. Elijah Dann 2011

For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the side-lines, well, a lot has happened since then.

Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones: Rock God Meets Rock Child Cynthia Ellis 2011

But it's not, so we're going to moan from the side-lines like a bunch of backseat A&R people.

Rosanna (No 826) 2010

It no longer makes sense, if ever it did, for health, senior, environmental, or labor advocates, to stay on the side-lines in the war over who gets picked for life-tenured seats on the federal courts.

Obama and Senate Dems on the Court: On-Message, for a Change Simon Lazarus 2010

For those states (like Illinois-3, Delaware-4, South Carolina-3, North Carolina-5, Oregon-5, Missouri-6, Colorado-5, Virginia-5) that already voted for Obama, those superdelegates have no excuses to be waiting on the side-lines!

Delegate update: Obama 35 away 2008

Is that a tougher question that just complaining from the side-lines?

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2010