It's at best a diversion, and it wasn't very diverting here.
Diverted here and there by historical inquiries into the theme of sexual license, the tale winds toward Consuela's eventual return.
With each new investment, the makings of a disaster took shape, and when this year's historically heavy rains came, there was nowhere for the water to go, diverted here and there by irrigation canals without an outlet.
This vast lump of rock just off the east coast of Canada is the closest bit of North America to Europe, so transatlantic flights which need to make an emergency landing are often diverted here.
The event culminates Sunday with the start of Around Alone, the single-handed round-the-world race that was set to begin from Newport, R.I., but diverted here to show solidarity with the city.
In the last such episode, in 1996, Stansted negotiators secured the release of the crew and 197 passengers of a Sudanese Airbus forcibly diverted here by six Iraqis on a flight from Khartoum, Sudan's capital, to Amman, Jordan.
— Three generations of Al Kalin's family have worked their 2,000 acres of carrots and sugar beets, wheat and alfalfa for almost a century in the Imperial Valley, a scorching swath of Southern California desert that was unfit for farming until water from the Colorado River was diverted here in 1901.
BOSTON, Aug. 17 — A woman who caused a flight from London to Washington to be diverted here on Wednesday made what the crew believed to be references to Al Qaeda and bomb making, said she had entered Pakistan illegally, and urinated on the floor of the airplane, an affidavit released on Thursday said.
"But of course," I diverted hastily, "it could be worse.
I diverted my course and went towards Delta camp.
I diverted on to another empty motorway and drove straight into a filthy fogbank.
