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Clive Stafford-Smith, who runs an American legal charity, describes the Cuban prison as "a massive diversion".

They now constitute a massive diversion of global resources away from sovereign states, for no other reason than to avoid taxes.

And its size represents a massive diversion of actual and potential resources away from public activities that benefit the whole of society--activities like education, public health, and environmental protection, the very ones Bush endorsed at the outset of his speech--and toward the single purpose of augmenting the net incomes of the comfortable.

Then, two weeks ago, adding insult to misogyny and creating a massive diversion from the main point -- the defense of the child -- the Vatican, in an ostensible response to the abuse scandal, made the out-from-nowhere ruling that the ordination of women priests equates to the same "canonical crime" as pedophilia.

Such a massive river diversion won't happen over night, and will be costly -- it is estimated between one and two bill dollars annually for the next 10 years.

In the 1970s upstream dam projects began to reduce water levels; and in the early 1990s Saddam Hussein ordered the construction of massive diversion canals and dams that drained more than 90 percent of the original marshlands.

"To accurately capture the influence of these regions' on the atmosphere, these massive diversions need to be accounted for".

The 50-year, $50 billion Master Plan for the Coast (in 2012 dollars) includes projects to build levees, pump sediment into sinking areas, and build massive diversions on the river to reconnect it with the dying delta.

India is set to start work on a massive, unprecedented river diversion programme, which will channel water away from the north and west of the country to drought-prone areas in the east and south.

In the long hiatus between Command & Conquer games, Supreme Commander was a worthy diversion – a massive three-way tussle fought out across vast maps.

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said a commitment to a referendum now would be a massive gamble and a diversion from the economic crisis.