Sentence examples for diversion of effort from inspiring English sources

"We are not going to take our eyes off the ball," he said in reference to Dr. Waterston's concerns about a diversion of effort.

Requiring Microsoft to submit such a plan will cause a huge diversion of effort by Microsoft's executives at a critical time when Microsoft is attempting to change its entire business and programming model to remain competitive in the Internet age.

My opposition has been to the decision to go to war in Iraq, motivated by the belief that this would create a serious diversion of effort and strengthen our enemies.

If this diversion of effort onto species in other fisheries did in fact occur, it would mean that part of the costs associated with the adjustment process were carried by fisheries other than the SBT.

Workload implications of implementing the indicator Potential barriers to the implementation of the indicators Unintended consequences to the implementation of the indicator: these can be positive or negative in nature (i.e. disruption to clinical or organisational workflow, 'spillovers' that may be negative (diversion of effort) or positive (encouraging general quality improvement).

The failure to take Vienna marked the end of Turkish expansion into Europe and was followed by the diversion of Ottoman effort toward Asia and the Mediterranean.

The policy objectives from a biological perspective were therefore: (a) to achieve a significant reduction in total catch and a diversion of fishing effort away from one and two year-old fish; and (b) from a socio-economic perspective, to achieve a substantial fleet reduction while minimising social dislocation and hardship.

"This is a misguided effort, a diversion of investigative resources, and blatant effort to shut down the zealous defense of defendants at these sham proceedings at Guantánamo," he said.

This failure is particularly harmful when one considers the enormous opportunity costs of the effort: diversion of attention, precious resources and support away from the established solutions that really work.

Otherwise, the "hidden costs and downside risks, including the diversion of data and measurement efforts, risk distorting development policy making" (Ravallion 2012).

The Germans refrained from attempts to recapture the lost ground at Lens, due to the demands of defensive operations of the Third Battle of Ypres and the need to avoid the diversion of forces from the main effort.