As David Cameron took the flak over his controversial NHS reforms in England back in April, he was happy to use the health service in Wales to distract attention from the controversy during question time in the Commons.
Independent counsels should not often come in and distract the U.S. government from its essential business.
Does what is happening in Egypt distract at all from that push?
Ms. Amit's fussy, red cloaks for the capstone scene featuring mirror images of the two Irenes spinning in harmony distract from the moment's two-as-one image.
Superseding these and many other recollections of Kennedy the senator is my vivid memory of him as a person uniquely able to distract and comfort others in distress.
Nor, says Dalton, should the routines outlined in the study distract parents from the most important contributors to childhood obesity.
To do it the David Blaine way, all you need is a bit of training in how to distract people while creating an illusion.
But eating while trying to browse Facebook in an attempt to distract from your loneliness can be a challenge.
Tonight, in an effort to distract from this reality, the Leader of the Republican party took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal to engage in an amazing act of revisionist history.
Mr. Murthy denied wrongdoing and said he chose to participate in a settlement to ensure the issue didn't distract him from his job at iGate, a subsidiary of which he had joined in 2003.
But it proved impossible to distract the jury from what was said in those calls.
In fact, sociability probably helped distract from the food.
What a great way to distract yourselves from preparing for the best defense in football, and creating resentment on the team, not to mention looking bad in front of your fans and opponents.
The 19-year-old was convicted by magistrates of shining a light at an aircraft in flight so as to dazzle or distract the pilot.
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Contrast color in the mesh becomes a stealth weapon to distract the opponent.
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Shark safety officers trained to distract any creatures that may get curious will take turns in the water surrounding her.
This is not about teaching students through games in order to entertain them, or to distract them from the other media vying for their daily attention.
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Creating a new department to engage in such an exercise would be expensive and distract us from our current efforts to find, hire, and retain the skilled security people we need as the threat rises, the methodologies of the attackers gain in sophistication, and the targets of their attacks expand to all of our intellectual property.
Developers of navigation apps and hardware must place great care in creating an experience that doesn't unnecessarily distract the driver.
Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.
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With little else to distract market watchers, their attention is directly on the debate in Washington over how to reduce the deficit, using a package of negotiated spending cuts and tax hikes.
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"Given that it was you who, rightly, urged MSPs to raise their game a few months ago, I am sure you will not want protracted discussion of your own conduct as first minister to distract parliament from the important work that lies ahead of us in 2005, " she said.
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He knows how to handle big franchises with picky fans, he thinks outside of the box to create some of the most unique modern fantasy and sci-fi films, and he consistently delivers high-quality stories focused on character and complex themes wrapped in amazing action and effects that support rather than distract from the character narratives.
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He said Sinn Fein had "got their knickers in a twist" and were using this to "distract from the real issue".
She rarely grants interviews, which distract her from her current research: a survey of government intervention in setting foreign exchange rates between 1962 and 1985.
But David Harbach of the U.S. Justice Department's public integrity section told jurors in a rebuttal argument that Lowell was merely trying to distract jurors from focusing on the charges against Edwards.
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Our hero contemplates himself in the hallway mirror or waters the plants or engages in other some other anodyne activity which serves merely to distract him from doing what he claims he wants to do.
There are enough complications and hazards in starting a new business, and worrying about funding will distract you from running yours.
Her coaches are not happy that she is in a long term relationship but she claims it does not distract her.
To distract herself from the war, Hazel says she tries to lose herself in her daily chores, tending to a house and a family separated by war.
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