Politicians understandably want to deflect attention from their own misguided policies.

Nevertheless the challenges should not mask or deflect attention from the opportunities.

Taking into account the sufficient warning time, countermeasures to either fragment or deflect an incoming NEO could be possible.

This is doubtless an attempt to deflect attention from Fujimori's own crimes perpetuated from 1990 to 2000, before he fled to Japan.

However, the power of the well known tale of Rome's legendary foundation tends to deflect attention from its actual, and much more ancient, origins.

Someone asked me whether I stuck it in in order to deflect ire from discussions of gender and Nazism and race and so on. I won't comment on that.

The implementation of that agenda would require a substantial commitment and must not deflect the Department from the performance of its primary obligation to support and direct current missions.

Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

NEW YORK For seven years, the United States has allowed its fixation on the renminbi s exchange rate to deflect attention from far more important issues in its economic relationship with China.

Ironically, by turning the affair into a spy thriller, Putin has helped the US to salvage its reputation or at least to deflect some of the attention from the NSA s surveillance programs.

That actually wouldn't be such a problem, because if we were really all going to die, we would put aside our differences, we'd spend whatever it took, and we'd find a way to deflect them.

This challenge arises from the fact that, while standardized bureaucracies possess the virtues of stability and predictability, they do so primarily because they are able to deflect external influence and authority sharing to a substantial degree.

No wonder that country has been trying to throw up smokescreens at international forums they are trying to deflect attention from their own record and actions by turning superficial concerns about the peaceful nuclear programmes of others into a politically charged debate.

But Satan caused them to deflect therefrom and expelled them from the ( happy ) state in which they were and We said Fall down , one of you a foe unto the other ! There shall be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a time .

Both the international community and persons living in the subregion were often unaware of existing conflicts as Governments had been adept at using international diplomacy to deflect attention from those situations. He referred to several recommendations adopted at the meeting which had been addressed to Governments.

It ought to be buzzing with plans to reduce the temperature, and with plans to live at the higher temperature and not at all costs, but efficiently and cheaply. And some such plans exist, things like swarms of mirrors in space to deflect the sunlight away, and encouraging aquatic organisms to eat more carbon dioxide.