Sentence examples for detours from inspiring English sources

Some are circuitous, others take bafflingly convoluted detours.

A self-declared 2003 roadmap to democracy has so far proved long on detours and short on direction.

Mr Aczel sets out to evaluate each of the terms in the Drake equation in order to support his book's central thesis: that intelligent life must exist somewhere other than just on earth.Unfortunately, in contrast to the many opportunities for detours into mathematical arcana provided by the tale of Fermat's last theorem, this subject does not really lend itself to a mathematical treatment.

But these problems result mainly from the lengthy detours that calls must make to keep within German regulations.

Indeed, much of the spacecraft's basic design in particular, the size and shape of the cargo hold and the vehicle's ability to make 2,000km "detours" across range was dictated by military requirements.

Mr Hansen focuses on the complex ideological detours and military tactics of the Shabab from its inception.

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But there are fascinating detours into the histories of science and mathematics, the origins of weather forecasting, the development of nuclear weapons and the earliest work on artificial life.

Locals were forced to make long detours to walk to work.

The problem is, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights and there are no police.'" —Richard Guy Briggs on "Besieged", Nov 9th 2013.

It is the extent and reach of these detours from the Green Line that convinces Palestinians that the barrier is less a project for Israel's security, and more a means to realise the colonial ambitions of the settler movement and its supporters.The winding route of this first phase of the plan traps 15 Palestinian villages with 13,600 residents between the Green Line and the barrier.