One is that Jews in Germany complain that they suffer for it whenever Einstein talks; the other is that admirers of Einstein feel that science has suffered because he has diverted so much of his energy to political causes.
Hitchens has written a book that is seriously harmful, not because of his attack on religion, some of it deserved, but because he will divert people away from the real problem: which is we human beings, both religious and irreligious.
When Petrovich barks, "The integrity of the game must be maintained," and Jonathan and Ridley don't slip in the puddles of duplicity that drip from his every utterance, it's only because he keeps them diverted.
Paul thinks that structural and productivity shock explanations are not only "useless," but cruel because they divert attention from what he knows to be the problem -- lack of demand, for which there is a clear solution -- have Uncle Sam print or borrow more money and spend it, presumably on goods and services produced by American workers.
Companies do not care for whistle-blowing programs because they divert information from their internal compliance systems and instead give it directly to the government, meaning it is not filtered first by outside counsel.
A lightning rod and its associated grounding conductors provide protection because they divert the current from nonconducting parts of the structure, allowing it to follow the path of least resistance and pass harmlessly through the rod and its cables.
There was no sign, however, that the insurgents were ready to abandon their doctrinal opposition to having fun, with games of all sorts banned because they divert young people from prayer and religious studies.
By analogy, parasites are considered to harm their hosts because they divert and consume a common resource that the host also requires for its maintenance and reproduction.
Joe Hicks initally said no, but not just because he thought baseball would divert Aaron from a sport he thought he had a true future in.
Pettitte had been scheduled to start for Class AA Trenton in Portland, Me., but he was reportedly diverted because of poor weather conditions there.
