Critics say the Chinese government is cynically wrapping itself in the flag, targeting an old historical foe to distract from domestic problems in the run up to next month's Communist Party congress.
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.
And in an unbelievable attempt to distract the voters of Ohio, where one in eight jobs depends on the car business, he accused the President of allowing Jeep to move jobs to China.
Unfortunately, such a misrepresentation of the political reality in Taiwan tends to distract from the inherently positive benefits that the maturation of democracy in Taiwan offers the world order.
Independent counsels should not often come in and distract the U.S. government from its essential business.
And fundraising will distract Obama from campaigning in September and October, yet another challenge to a challenged reelection campaign.
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.
At first, they'd considered using smoke grenades to distract local law enforcement in an effort to "topple financial institution signs atop high rise buildings, " the complaint says.
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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.
Any number of campus leftists have accused him of inventing the whole drama in order to distract attention from corporate corruption and economic malaise.
Angel investor Paige Craig recently revealed on Business Insider his hesitation to invest in start-ups run by women, for fear that pregnancy in particular would distract them from work.
The public relations nightmare that would arise from Obama continuing his vacation where he golfed, spent 90 minutes at the gym and visited a Marine base would surely, in turns, distract from any dialogue and take on a life of its own.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said Israel was engaging in "baseless accusations against other countries in order to distract the attention of the international community from its terrorist activities being carried out throughout the world, " according to a statement from the state-run IRNA news agency.
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.
He allegedly also booby-trapped his flat to explode, in an apparent bid to distract police from responding to the cinema during the shooting.
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.
But, if cyber warfare was part of a larger military arsenal, and the US can distract an enemy with cyber attacks while engaging in more traditional, kinetic battles on the ground, then this is an arena where the US can still claim superiority.
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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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Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a paper financed by tycoon Boris Berezovsky, noted that Yeltsin had opted for an "exacerbation of the political situation" as a means to distract public attention from the impeachment process currently under way in parliament.
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.
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