Sentence examples for be a distraction when from inspiring English sources

Mr Davies said: "It's a bit rich for the Labour leader to say that a referendum on our nation's future would be a distraction, when he has made a political career out of distracting attention from his government's appalling record of economic failure.

"Shows can be a distraction when you're running a business," he said.

In particular, he would want any negotiations resolved entering 2013, as he found them to be a distraction when they trickled into May this season.

All of which can be a distraction when you are preparing to match Joe Louis's record of 27 heavyweight title fights.

In a city that has hosted many a hasty marriage, most recently the quickly annulled tie-up between Britney Spears and a long-time friend, investors will hope that this corporate union does not prove to be a distraction when the real action lies beyond America's shores.

Paglia also takes literally Gaga's recent line – that she doesn't have sex very often because she fears losing creativity through her vagina – which surely was just a witty way of saying that men can be a distraction when you're totally focused on your work.

"Technology is a distraction when we need literacy, numeracy and critical thinking".

Global warming "is a distraction when families are falling apart and abortion continues as a great evil," added a Focus on the Family spokesman.

Christopher Hein, director of the Italian Refugee Council, says that court cases such as those being brought in the UK over conditions in Italy are a distraction, when what is actually required is a wholesale reform of the Dublin regulation.

It's good to see proposals to address the emissions that come from heating, but continued support for nuclear and fracking is a distraction when Scotland could be the EU's first renewable electricity nation".

"It's a distraction when you're out of town and you get national criticism, but I can't let it guide me," Mr. Schumacher said by phone after the reviews were out, pointing out that "Beauty and the Beast" had received bad in-town reviews and had a pretty good go of it for 13 years.