Sentence examples for able to distract from inspiring English sources

We don't want anybody to be able to distract attention.

Mr. McCain's associates said that at the very least, they were able to distract attention from Mr. Obama.

Are you sure there's nothing else?" Ordinarily when Amina felt homesickness coming on, she was able to distract herself with some kind of housework.

Only Kate Winslet, engaging with a more subdued incarnation of Mr. Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," has been able to distract him from himself.

When I am calm and flexible, able to distract and deflect rather than reacting from a place of rigidity or annoyance, my girls generally respond in kind.

For a few hours each week, the group worked with pipe cutters and benders, hammers and drills — that is, when David Pentecost, the project leader, was able to distract them from chatting or a suddenly urgent text message.

Ms. Harrington said she suspected that those who rally against truncated maternity leaves "imagine a 15-hour day working full throttle, not able to be distracted".

With Automatic, parents will be able to filter distracting applications – like social media apps – from disturbing teen drivers when the car has started.

Similarly monkeys are able to ignore distracting information (such as color, shape, or surface area) in number matching experiments (Cantlon and Brannon 2007; Jordan et al. 2008), and can even match number information across sensory modalities (Jordan et al. 2008).

Being able to communicate with others, to distract us from the stresses in the world".

As she slowly bleeds, she is able to use her wits to distract him long enough for Batman and Commissioner Gordon to arrive and defeat her brother.