The mainstream media and the Democratic Party will do its best to divert attention to minor issues.
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"It is very tempting to divert your attention to where the money is, " he says.
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It seems strange that, in the midst of this offensive, Dagan would divert his attention to the Ofer Brothers Shipping woes.
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And he should have been on the watch for a variety of stalling tactics fibbers use while trying to figure out how to respond: Liars tend to repeat the question you just asked, make irrelevant statements to divert attention, or try to put you on the defensive.
After the ceremony, Sgt Petry sought to divert attention toward his comrades and to their families.
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Mr Howard's critics accused him of seeking to divert attention from his unpopular effort to reform Australia's labour-relations system.
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The amendment allows a rancher to divert his attention from livestock to wildlife management and still keep his agricultural tax exemptions.
Some suspect that a mysterious terrorist attack in Damascus last month in which unknown gunmen exploded a car bomb and threw grenades at police was staged by Mr Assad's security forces, both to divert attention from the trial and to win American sympathy by making it look like Syria was struggling valiantly against Islamist terrorism.
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Indian diplomats say the talk of a threat from India is a smokescreen to divert attention from Pakistan's failure to tackle the real issue: its nurturing of terrorists.
They said it was against House rules to call the speaker a "cry-baby, " and said Democrats were just trying to divert attention from Clinton's inability to balance the budget.
But Asefi accused the United States of trying to divert attention from domestic problems and what he said was its failure to fight terrorism by lodging allegations against other nations.
"It's a media stunt, to divert attention from the constitutional decree, " said demonstrator Taha Shaker, referring to a move by the military council stripping the presidency of some powers.
To divert attention from the inefficiency of its (politicised) police force, the government wants to be seen heeding the populist call for executions to resume.
He said Mr Ervine's challenge to the secretary of state to arrest him was "designed to divert attention from the very real issues that people who associate with paramilitaries should face up to".
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Moreover, Assad used his trip to London to divert any attention the international press corps might have paid to his roundup of Kurdish political activists.
Because drivers frequently need to grapple with controls while keeping their eyes on the road, the fewer physical buttons a car has, the more they need to divert their gaze and attention in order to change the temperature or radio station.
By pushing some people from Bangladesh over the border, the BDR managed to divert India's attention, forcing officials to concentrate on the area between the village of Mathabhanga, in India, and Lalmonirhat in Bangladesh, analysts say.
He will embark on an aggressive anti-Western foreign policy to divert attention from his domestic weakness.
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And if not, it would have been the U.S. side that sought to divert attention elsewhere.
" She said she thinks rumors have been spread "to divert attention from election results.
The President is continuing to divert attention away from our fundamental deficit spending problem.
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Rather it seems a ploy to divert attention from his mounting difficulties at home.
Syria has denied the allegations, saying the U.S. wants to divert attention from civil disorder in Iraq.
Considering this would not be an attempt to divert attention from the president's conduct or for delay.
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"The management will blame the weather and will seek to divert attention from their own mismanagement, " he added.
In Asia there are still sars and Kim Jong Il to divert attention.
From Russia's viewpoint, Mr Medvedev's scheme has helped to divert attention from Georgia.
Protesters claimed BP was using the arts in a bid to divert attention away from its impact on the environment.
She said the closure was an attempt to divert attention, and the younger Mr. Murdoch should have fired Ms. Brooks instead.
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