Sentence examples for diverting effort from inspiring English sources

My fear is that this will merely create a parallel system of results alongside the kinds of information practitioners need to learn and improve, diverting effort and money and doing nothing for downwards accountability.

After the exit of himself and his father, Adams had complained that "bouncy castles and face painting" outside the stadium was diverting effort away from the first team.

If full staffing is still not possible despite terminating all hit to lead projects and diverting effort from all exploratory activities, then the project is still allowed to transition.

These conceptual errors may slow or impede progress by diverting efforts into solutions for the wrong problems.

She feared the development of a military 'substructure' that would divert effort and resources from the main task of strengthening the transatlantic Western Alliance.

Eurobonds may provide relief in the short term, they say, but this would divert effort from the real cure of reforming public finances and uncompetitive economies; the illness might then re-emerge in more virulent form.Take Italy, say German officials.

The best way for Yahoo! to blow it would be to divert effort to a major quest for "subscription" revenue.

They will only divert effort and attention away from electioneering and they will achieve nothing.

Hampered by congestion in the beachhead, which delayed the deployment of its armoured support and forced to divert effort to attacking strongly held German positions along the 9.3 mile route to the town, the 3rd Division was unable to assault Caen in force on D-Day and was stopped short of its outskirts, by the 21st Panzer Division.

Now, by giving a platform to a small group of dissidents, Mr. Mbeki has helped to divert efforts to fight AIDS, Dr. van der Horst said.

But he urged Washington not to let Iraq divert efforts from the most pressing problem in the region, the worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Muslims across the region regard as the driving force behind the rising tide of militant Islamic terrorism in the world.