backbench

His spacious quarters indicate his transition from backbench upstart to established member of the governing team.

The petitioner who was a student of Class X was in the backbench when a lady teacher was teaching there.

Through this two-year, transcontinental colloquy, through this vast outpouring of personal sentiments and reactions from poor homes and rich, from backwoods cabins and metropolitan penthouses, from the young and old, from dubious backbench sitters and busy pillars of the congregations, from the bitter and the satisfied, each person telling it as he or she saw it.

Seated on the backbench of the courtroom, Emerald had mixed feelings.

They scooted into a double seat near the rear and noticed that even with four people squeezed into the backbench, they had been lucky to find the last empty places.

Niger, as a country belongs to the backbench of African soccer.

A good spread could be allotted on a news page if the dead person was deemed worthy by the powerful and sceptical members of the “backbench” of the senior sub-editors.