Sentence examples similar to deflect something from inspiring English sources

Holmstrom is lethal, Brodeur said, but so are Ryan Smyth of Edmonton and Kris Versteeg of Florida, who prefers setting up higher in the slot, giving his redirections more space to travel — and thus, more space to deflect off something else.

Soon, I fear, he will be deflected by something else he has seen on Fox.

But Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were prepared to see it though and not be deflected by something that didn't work.

But the bare insistence that our minds do not reflect "the order of the cosmos" is not enough to deflect attention from something about the power of human reason that evidently demands to be explained.

To deflect means to make something change direction.

In fact, Galileo does not employ the notion of force at all in his derivation of these two relationships, and contrary to legend however much Galileo may have anticipated the first law, he never showed the least sign of appreciating the implication that Descartes emphasized, that curvilinear motion requires something to deflect the body out of its motion in a straight line.

I try to deflect them by saying something positive.

And the lawyers want to deflect liability in case something goes horribly wrong".

Something happened to deflect Marjorie Mpundu, LL.M. '05's progress toward a J.S.D. degree from Cornell.

She didn't want us rummaging in our armoury for something else to deflect the grip of death, as it inched closer.

In the end Pellegrini was given a generous three years to make a case for his retention at the club – admittedly he would have had to achieve something astounding to deflect City from their pursuit of Guardiola – and most people apart from a Ukrainian agent with an axe to grind recognise he fell somewhat short of the mark.