Such measures are, of course, an unfortunate detour.

That is until my life took a detour.

But it has also been an enforced detour from the vital diplomatic task of building new rules and institutions for an interdependent world.

After those 28 years my experience with houses took a sharp detour, for I have already slept in almost 50 houses in the past two years.

On the way he made one last detour to Sardinia, then in 1349 returned to Tangier by way of Fez, only to discover that his mother had also died a few months before.

As I pointed out in recent Congressional testimony, poor education leads to poor job prospects, poor families, and back to poor education if not with a detour through incarceration, which makes it even harder to break the cycle.

The big question to which nobody has a clear answer is whether Europe is in the process of inventing a model of its own, or has only taken a detour from the inevitable choice between disaggregation and convergence on the standard federal template.

The fight led by the United States, with the rest of the West providing lower key support has weakened Al Qaeda s influence and capacity. But it has also been an enforced detour from the vital diplomatic task of building new rules and institutions for an interdependent world.