Sentence examples for divert what from inspiring English sources

The legislation at issue would divert what is known as Impact Aid, which is a revenue source for many schools serving military families.

The extended metropolis model is thus an alternative form of urban growth that helps to divert what might otherwise be an overwhelming flood of migrants to the great cities.

If countries have a limited supply of a drug, Danzon argued, they could be tempted to divert what they have to the United States, where patients will pay higher prices than at home — creating shortages among their own citizens.

Instead, the FCC will take each 6 MHz TV channel, chop it up into a 5 MHz block, and divert what's left toward unlicensed spectrum.

Indeed, it can be argued correctly that foundations siphon billions from the public coffers by allowing the wealthy to divert what would be taxable funds to institutions they control or influence.

But it was mainly a reaction to the ease with which he had diverted what was supposed to be the flood tide of their revolution.

"Contention is as much a part of their legacy as their principles," Richard Brookhiser writes in his diverting "What Would the Founders Do?" — an entertaining exercise in posing present-day problems as questions, and then attempting to answer them.

While the hand-carved canoes, baskets and smoked-salmon bannocks (a kind of local panini) are diverting, what really makes this 30,000-square-foot museum shine is the friendly aboriginal "youth ambassadors," who welcome visitors with native songs and totem-carving exhibitions.

"Numerous homes were flooded, though many were saved by fire crews pumping and diverting what was mainly surface water," he said.

We are diverted from what we're looking at — a naked woman — to what we're supposed to be looking at.

96% of its flow has been diverted and what little water remains is polluted with saline and untreated sewage.