Sentence examples for diversion against from inspiring English sources

"This whole question of the public program is really a diversion against the central goal that we should have: to get and keep everyone covered," he said.

From Saxony, in January 1793, Kościuszko was delegated to Paris to seek support for the Polish cause, first from the Girondists and then the Jacobins, pledging in return radical internal reforms in Poland and military diversion against Prussia and Austria, then at war with Revolutionary France.

He then escapes and sabotages a politician's ad campaign in order to promote anti-electoral propaganda, with the assistance of Legs, who acts as a diversion against a local guard.

The right side of these defenses was nominally given to General Lincoln, but as he was leading troops intended for a diversion against Ticonderoga, Gates assumed command of that portion of the line himself.

As a diversion against the planned move on the Dorchester Heights, he ordered these batteries to open fire on the town on the night of March 2, which fire the British returned, without significant casualties on either side.

The Luftwaffe was ordered to provide air cover and diversion raids against British targets.

The EC regulation provides anti-diversion measures against specific pharmaceutical products and requires manufacturers to reduce their essential medicines export prices to developing countries by "75% off the average 'ex factory' price in OECD countries, or at the cost of production plus 15%"[ 27].

Then there was the added diversion of red against red, rendering the whole performance a little "green screen" with disembodied arms and heads.

"This is incredibly lucrative," said Marc N. Garber, an assistant United States attorney in Las Vegas, who has prosecuted many cases involving illegal drug diversion, including one against Bindley Western Industries, one of the five largest national drug wholesalers.

In the past six months, biofuels have been bruised, battered and beaten as the surge in food prices triggered a public backlash against diversion of corn to energy.

The DEA accused Cardinal and CVS of failing to maintain "effective controls" against diversion as required by the federal Controlled Substances Act.