That was his job and no one would deflect him from it.
But in an effort to deflect political heat over health cuts and new fees, the government has pledged to put every dollar from the savings into a "medical research future fund".
His agent, Michael Becker, feels that Ballack has been "made the scapegoat" to deflect from the team's lack of direction and Dutt's lack of authority inside the dressing room.
"I have myself witnessed repeated instances where there has been a denial of responsibility, corrosive suspicion, deliberate delay and a practice of hiding behind values in order to deflect or stifle criticism and protect self-interest.
He in turn accused them of seeking to deflect attention from their flagship policy of independence.
I try to deflect questions about my periods of absence, or why I'm not going out that night.
Sometimes sweet and innocent, sometimes deranged with maniacal obsession, she provides the story with the layers required to give it depth and deflect the usual clichés of horror.
Still, no character of mine is as devoted to the cause as Jude Sweetwine in I'll Give You the Sun, who carries around her grandmother's leather-bound "bible" of superstitions, and who, at any time, might have an onion in one pocket to ward off illness and a mirror in another to deflect unwanted attention.
By manipulating photons, they've discovered a way of making them react with and deflect each other, essentially forming a new type of matter.
Shadow ministers have attempted to deflect any mention of it.
Climate scientists have been trying to dodge, catch or deflect those bullets for decades.
