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.
After the ceremony, Sgt Petry sought to divert attention toward his comrades and to their families.
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Syria has denied the allegations, saying the U.S. wants to divert attention from civil disorder in Iraq.
"The management will blame the weather and will seek to divert attention from their own mismanagement, " he added.
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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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.
The Islamic summit was supposed to divert attention from this domestic in-fighting.
David-Lee Priest, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, says music is able to divert attention through a neurological mechanism.
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Israel is concerned that Assad, if he is facing defeat, might try to draw Israel into the fighting to divert attention away from his internal struggles.
Syria has denied the allegations, saying they were "misinformation" to divert attention from civil disorder in Iraq after coalition forces took control of most of the country.
Lord Strathclyde said Labour was attacking the decision in an attempt to divert attention from Prime Minister Tony Blair's "stuffing" of the Lords with his own supporters.
Wynn Resorts responded to the suit with filings and statements saying it had done nothing wrong and that Mr. Okada's suggestions were attempts to divert attention from other issues.
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.
Their supporters argue that the legal action brought by Overstock is a crude tactic by its mercurial boss, Patrick Byrne, to divert attention from its long history of underperformance.
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So, before we took our first flight, I devised a plan to divert attention away from the cramped quarters by coming up with an improvisation that I hoped would diminish the backlash.
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But with many Indonesians preoccupied with the meeting of the country's new assembly and the picking of a president, the soldiers are eager to divert attention from their folly in East Timor.
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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But she said the move could be seen an attempt to divert attention away from some MPs' criticism of its Health Bill, which would bring in a partial smoking ban in public places.
"We regret that Craigslist felt compelled to resort to unfounded and unsubstantiated claims in order to divert attention from actions by Craigslist's board that unfairly diluted our minority interest, " eBay spokeswoman Kim Rubey said in a statement.
Hathaway made it clear she would answer one question about the incident, but that she would not allow the interview to get out of control and to divert attention from the movie she is so obviously proud of.
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His successor, General Manuel Jose Bonett, has gone back to the classics, telling a news-magazine that he felt he was living in the long-ago Athens of Aristophanes, where corrupt leaders took their countries to war to divert attention from troubles at home.
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Naturally, therefore, Mr Olmert's critics in Israel suspect that he is pursuing the Syria track merely to divert attention from how badly talks on a peace deal with the Palestinian president, Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas, have been going, and from some recent corruption scandals.
Many protesters believe that Erdogan is playing to his base of culturally conservative voters, a strategy in line with his views as a pious Muslim as well as one that protestors see as an attempt to divert attention from the operation in Uludere.
Mr. JOHN BOLTON (U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.): I don't think it's helpful to divert attention from seeking to get a permanent sustainable solution based on the approach that we and the French have been taking, and that's the approach we're going to continue to work on.
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.
"It is very tempting to divert your attention to where the money is, " he says.
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