shunt

Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Putin had been shunted to the fringes of summit group photos.

His pitch to the membership was to move away from the tried-and-tested, with a decisive shunt to the left and a more confrontational communication style.

Currently the only way for trains to cross the Strait is to have the coaches shunted onto ferries and carried over the sea in a 30-minute journey.

One time, a teenage girl, writing for her high school newspaper, was roughly shunted aside by the sportswriter pack before a Cincinnati Reds game.

Hundreds of journalists were accredited for a process that would, surely, dominate headlines in France throughout its three-month duration and force a queasy public to confront a crime too often shunted to the sidelines.