Sentence examples for deflecting the issue from inspiring English sources

A former Bush Administration official, deflecting the issue of Wolfowitz's culpability, cited mistakes made by other officials during the early stages of the American occupation.

"It was clear they were trying to deflect the issue," said one American official.

Gayle Pickering, chairwoman of the Zoning Board of Appeals, tried to deflect the issue by saying: "This is not a decision about art.

There were any number of good-natured ways to deflect the issue (not one a president decides, of course).

Mitt Romney, who was mocked during the 2008 campaign for having employed undocumented Guatemalan immigrants as landscapers on his Massachusetts estate, tried to deflect the issue by vacillating (as usual).

Who knows what will come out?" If Stewart's memoir steers clear of speculating on that, it charmingly deflects the issue by offering a non-stop run of sex and drug adventures, delivered in the flip tone of a seasoned raconteur.

In fact, RIAA members deflect the issue, stating that MP3, as a compression standard, is fine.

A reporter did ask Michelle Bachmann about this and she deflected the issue by refusing to answer.

Jim's attempts to deflect the issue are unsuccessful, letting slip that he and Pam are happily dating.

Grilled by the San Francisco Weekly, they even deflected the issue rather than promising to be sure the festival was prepared to deal with rape in the future.

In Sweden this week, the president sought to deflect the issue from his own words about red lines, but to no avail.