After another conference, the two players decided that perhaps they should conform and carry on, at which point Sergio Garcia appeared on the fairway, cavorting as only he can and being a thoroughly distracting influence.
Immordino-Yang pointed out that while this study sought to eliminate any distracting influences, daydreaming actually often arises when there are plenty of potential distractions – when part of the mind is occupied, perhaps by the view from a bus window or the white noise of conversation at a cafe.
A recent report by the Scottish government concluded that mobiles were a "frequent and distracting influence", with cyberbullying especially prevalent.
He was adamant about not bringing women to racetracks, even his own mother, including a reference to their distracting influence on men in his Maxims.
Others engage in intentional shielding by keeping their own counsel, protecting their individual thoughts and ideas so that they can develop a point of view without the distracting influence of "groupthink" or peer pressure.
The question of whether the huge, distracting influence of online time-wasting has a good, bad or irrelevant impact on our creative output is so new that there aren't any definitive answers, yet.
(p. 842) The emotional Stroop, as presented in McKenna and Sharma's [ 22] pseudo-randomised design, engages the need to inhibit the distracting influence of negative emotional words in a format observable across time, thus allowing for the disentangling of age-related early and later stage processing differences already seen in other areas of cognition.
In other studies there were two post-implementations periods [ 6, 7] to eliminate distracting influence of the introduction phase.
The patient is informed that interpersonal difficulties are common in patients with eating disorders, even though many people have limited awareness of them due to the distracting influence of their preoccupation with thoughts about eating, shape and weight.
She defined her limits: "I have found it requisite in 'life' to so arrange my daily affairs as perforce not to admit of the intrusion of existentially distracting influences".
