The IMF warned that things could get worse if America did not divert course from the looming "fiscal cliff" of tax rises and spending cuts designed to kick in at the end of 2012.
He opened with a story about a captain of an American aircraft carrier who got into a fight with another party over who should divert course to avoid a collision, not realizing the other party was a lighthouse.
While steaming off the Norwegian coast, Admiral Hipper was ordered to divert course to locate the destroyer Bernd von Arnim, which had fallen behind Group 1.
Perhaps the decade is seen as too dreary or drab to have diverted the course of history decisively.
They have reached the hub of the spring and by means of trenching and piping have diverted its course".
As so often, those with money or muscle seemed to have diverted the course of justice.Now, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, has asked whether the courts need stiffening with reforms, "so that the justice system is seen to deliver justice".
The airliner diverted off course and lost contact with air traffic controllers between Malaysian and Vietnamese air-traffic control areas.
Later, after Hobbomuck diverted the course of the Connecticut River, he was punished to sleep forever as the prominent man-like form of the Sleeping Giant, part of the Metacomet Ridge in southern Connecticut.
In 1935, an earthquake and associated landslides diverted the course of the main river, and an open canal was constructed to provide the town with drinking water (25 ).
Fourth, tectonic compression related to Alpine mountain building may (or may not) have been important in creating an undulating landscape of growth folds and basins which diverted river courses and controlled areas of deposition.
