Sentence examples similar to Time diversion from inspiring English sources

LONG AFTER the Canadian James Naismith dreamed up a winter-time diversion called basketball, the Europeans went to work codifying another winter-time diversion.

"There was a one-time diversion of major meeting events to the New York market".

At these times diversion is most important.

On one level the games are simply entertainment, leisure-time diversions in a prosperous country.

They were working 12-hour days, and we should have made sure they took lunch breaks and time for diversion.

"Methadone has been around a long time and diversion has been around a long time," said Dr. Shinderman, who also operates clinics in Chicago.

"We strongly feel, based on the facts before us at this time, that diversion makes sense," said Alex Matthiessen, the executive director Riverkeeper, the Garrison-based environmental organization that is one of the few environmental groups backing diversion.

The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool allows anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a graph that charts the phrase's use over time — a diversion that can quickly become as addictive as the habit-forming game Angry Birds.

WASHINGTON — A legislative overhaul of the United States Patent and Trademark Office moved toward completion in the House on Tuesday when members of the two important committees agreed to keep the office subject to annual appropriations but to end for the first time the diversion of patent fees to other uses.

Currently, nearly half of Emergency Departments (EDs) are reporting operating at or over capacity, and one-third report some time on diversion, the most frequent reason being the lack of staffed critical care beds [ 16].

If so, it was a time-consuming diversion.