And the lurid villainy always seems diversionary, a baroque disguise for a bland, lifeless, and overfamiliar story.
Mr Latham suggested that "Huntley's diversionary tactics" often occurred just before or after phone conversations with Ms Carr.
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership organised what they called a series of "diversionary, leisure-based and educational initiatives for youths".
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During the landing in April, my division was employed in a diversionary operation a feint off the southeast coast of the island.
In other words, Republicans should be very careful about having their energy dissipated by a series of diversionary battles over short-run spending bills.
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The seized money will now be put into the Scottish government's CashBack for Communities Programme, which funds diversionary activities for young people in Scotland.
At one point, one of the police officers shifted his cruiser into gear as a diversionary tactic, and it rolled toward the two shooters.
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The spokesperson added that contingency plans were in place for adverse events, including agreed diversionary routes and lines of communication with the public and emergency services.
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Taking away this bit of user democracy that the vast majority of users are unaware of and unconcerned about is not a big deal, and a useful diversionary tactic.
Absent this wider debate, the row over RBS appears to be little more than a diversionary tactic to shift blame for the failure of the U.K.'s economic strategy.
In response, Saul called the Democratic attacks a diversionary tactic.
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It says Mr Kim is merely engaging in "diversionary tactics" to attract global attention and to attain Pyongyang's ultimate aim of "bargaining with the US at the negotiating table".
With the next G20 right around the corner, many view this as simply a diversionary tactic by the Chinese to deflect some attention when leaders assemble again starting June 26.
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Its No Knives Better Lives initiative, which has been rolled out across 10 local authority areas, uses work in schools and youth schemes, diversionary activities and advertising to discourage knife carrying.
But Network Rail said it would be "using diversionary routes and putting trains along the lines that they don't normally run on" including a freight line between Knottingley, West Yorkshire, and Doncaster via Goole.
The House of Representatives' decision to delay Mr Clinton's impeachment debate, which had been due to start on December 17th, will add force to the widely held view that attacking Iraq was a classic diversionary tactic.
The absence of the two additional parallel tracks has made it impossible for Metro-North and Amtrak to divert trains around the crash site a lack of flexibility that officials said would require diversionary measures and lengthen travel times well into next week, at least.
Thus, the Japanese national political scene is shifting, unpredictable, largely unproductive, and hugely (for citizens) frustrating circus-like affair, a kind of diversionary entertainment, but only for people of the mind that likes riddles, puzzles, and the occasional histrionic protest (read: the Ozawa split from the DPJ).
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They are also probably a precipitating factor in the kind of provocative statements and diversionary tactics that the Iranians have used to try to change the subject from the fact that they will not abide by their international obligations, and that is why they are the subject of this kind of pressure and this kind of isolation.
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