Sentence examples for diversionary from inspiring English sources

All sides agreed that diversionary feeding (scattering dead chicks on the moorlands – room service for harriers) was a good way to reduce nesting hen harriers' predation of grouse.

No wonder the budget was replete with diversionary announcements – the principal one, of course, being the decision to free new pensioners from the constraints of low yields on annuities.

Invoking the notion of equal pay proved a very skilful diversionary tactic.

WHEN in trouble, pick a fight with Britain: this is a time-honoured diversionary tactic for any French politician in difficulty.

The House of Representatives' decision to delay Mr Clinton's impeachment debate, which had been due to start on December 17th, will add force to the widely held view that attacking Iraq was a classic diversionary tactic.

He also alleged that the central bank colludes in this scam, and applies its regulations unfairly.The bank dismissed his letter as a diversionary rant.

"However much progress we might make on peace," says one, "it would all disintegrate if Iran achieved the ability to make a bomb and proliferate it".That could be a diversionary tactic.

A State Department official cheered the group's movement away from "diversionary issues" and "happy talk".

Mr Scott called charges of racism against the tea-party movement "a diversionary tactic [that] cannot be validated by facts".

The government found itself in an awkward fix: its relations with the Turkish government were tested; and it had to declare that the safety of its main political rival was of the utmost importance.When Mr Anwar left the embassy the next day, in a throng of press and supporters, he claimed that the accusation was a diversionary tactic.

Mr Fabius said he was fully aware of the danger that the Russian proposal was a "diversionary tactic", but that it was worth testing Russia's word with a credible, binding resolution.