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(Consider the old story about how the pinstripes of the Yankees' uniforms were designed to distract the competition).

Their answer has generally been repression, along with strident nationalist campaigns designed to distract the country's attention from economic grievances.

And there was a launching pad in northern France, but it might have been just a decoy, designed to distract the Allies from bombing real targets.

The debate around Lenin's interment, brought up by Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's culture minister, at a time of political turmoil and ongoing protests, is designed to distract the Russian public.

As Andy Borowitz observed, "Cruise missiles are specially designed to distract the media with pinpoint accuracy".

Today's hearing was designed to distract the public from the real issue at hand: whether Exxon lied about their knowledge that their product caused climate change.

The timing of the results of the postcard poll, in my opinion, were designed to distract from the news of the election in which the Unite for Strength slate took 6 of 11 Board seats and 13 of 22 alternate seats.

The opening of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier was criticised for what anti-war campaigners felt was its pro-war pomp and ceremony, and the burial of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster raised controversy between those who liked the ceremony, and those who thought that the pageantry was designed to distract from the poor living conditions faced by the survivors of the war.

Even as Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov was honoured by Moscow yesterday, critics said the investigation into the killing of Boris Nemtsov was designed to distract from the Kremlin's alleged role in the killing outside Red Square.

"It seems to me that this is a publicity stunt designed to distract from the fact that the men who really killed my friend are just as actively evil as they've been for years, and US policy in Syria is in dire need of reassessment," Anderson said.

All the same, the action against Goodwin has the whiff of a politically motivated act designed to distract from the other RBS story: the £1m bonus, now waived, for chief executive Stephen Hester and the government's inability to contain the public fury.