Think this is a liberal red herring designed to distract you from the evil government plan to kill grandma?

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The Speyside countryside is almost enough to distract you from sampling the Scotch, but luckily, at Glen Grant, you can enjoy both.

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Any annoyances only serve to distract you from your purpose.

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Fewer emails to distract you from winning?

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Using a flare to distract a group of walkers away from you is a more viable strategy than diving in guns blazing.

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And as I said before, there's always an attempt during campaigns to distract attention from the substantive policy issues when you're losing the substantive policy issues and debates.

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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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