Sentence examples for deflect attention away from inspiring English sources

Pets can deflect attention away from our flaws.

He has tried to deflect attention away from himself, and toward Kim.

"In this case, it seems to be an attempt to deflect attention away from Mrs. Clinton's lagging fund-raising numbers".

Mr Darling tried to deflect attention away from Labour rebels and win over waverers by switching attention to the Tories.

This is a desperation attempt by Jon Corzine to deflect attention away from his most vulnerable position.

It is designed to deflect attention away from the routine involvement of major companies in organised tax avoidance.

The current research focused on perfectionistic self-presentation and its relevance in models of narcissism as a form of overcompensation designed to deflect attention away from self-inadequacies.

But Tennessee denies that it even has a Medicaid backlog, and its Medicaid director suggested the federal government is trying to deflect attention away from HealthCare.gov problems.

Pruitt denied a member of his media team shopped around a negative story about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in order to deflect attention away from the EPA.

He told members of the debating society that the furore was being used to deflect attention away from the Labour leader's policies.

Of course, the most charitable explanation of this bizarre exchange is that Gove was attempting to deflect attention away from the Change Britain report itself.