Sentence examples for diversion to avoid from inspiring English sources

Cheltenham Borough Council delayed the trial because traffic used the route as a diversion to avoid the roadworks.

There are delays to journeys between London and south Wales, with a diversion to avoid flooding at Swindon adding about 45 minutes to travel times.

The latest crowd-pleasing move is another diversion to avoid addressing cyclical poverty; a wet band-aid plastered over a gunshot wound.

In fact, the attempt to resolve these debates with appeals to science alone is often a diversion to avoid addressing emotionally charged debates on values [ 18, 19].

More pointedly, corporate social responsibility has been critiqued as a way of branding corporate 'goodness' and the use of company developed 'self-regulation' a diversion to "avoid mandatory regulation or to defuse public pressure" [ 52].

These two cities are 8,600 miles apart, though diversions to avoid conflict zones in Iraq and Syria will increase the distance flown.

They should have been divorced a long time ago; now they walk around the house scowling and they stay out late, inventing diversions to avoid having to cross paths.

TV series such as Lost, Heroes, Fringe and FlashForward are tying themselves in chronological knots in a quest to maintain viewing figures, like Scheherazade dreaming up ever more elaborate diversions to avoid getting her head lopped off by the networks.

Would reach from here to Edinburgh" and 2,318,176 miles run is "equivalent to more than four return journeys to the moon (including diversions to avoid US moon rockets!)." The tradition of taking account of materials continues to this day, though in today's more environmentally conscious age, the aim is to reduce the amount of resources used.

"We are now looking into additional diversions to avoid answering any questions related to this matter, preferring to divert public interest to health care reform.

Your seaside stroll is interrupted by a diversion inland to avoid disturbing the occupants of Villa The Rock, the grandest property along the shore.