Sentence examples for creating a distraction from inspiring English sources

AND sometimes vice presidential candidates hurt a ticket by creating a distraction or embarrassment.

Paterno told his staff in his hospital room Thursday: "I don't need to be there creating a distraction.

The players lying at hearings and in the media are creating a distraction and getting in the way of the investigators' ability to do their job.

After all, the recent mayhem in South Africa only serves Mugabe, creating a distraction as he bleeds Zimbabwe in the final stretch of the election, with forebodings of greater slaughter hanging over the outcome.

The audience was warned about creating a distraction for the skaters, but the uncontrollable shutterbugs inside the Salt Lake Ice Center wanted to capture Michelle Kwan's start at Olympic redemption as a memento.

In a statement before sentencing, Mr. Ortiz insisted again yesterday that he had not joined the mob and that he had been trying to help the women shown in the videotape by creating a distraction so that they could escape.

But water landings created a distraction.

So he tried to create a distraction.

Nikitchyuk and his wife Erin needed to create a distraction.

Ryan Williams, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, said Mr. Plouffe was trying to create a distraction.

In retrospect, my use of the question created a distraction I would prefer to have avoided.