Sentence examples for effort to sidetrack from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lewis viewed the complaints as an effort to sidetrack his investigators.

You are out of here.' " Mr. Lewis viewed the complaints as an effort to sidetrack his investigators.

A Republican effort to sidetrack the measure with a procedural tactic was rebuffed on a vote that generally adhered to party lines.

In truth, the deficit/debt uproar is a deliberate effort to sidetrack attention, to defeat the will of the electorates in the US, as well as Greece among others, who stubbornly insist on effective action, economic recovery and financial reform.

Although Pentagon officials and Americans serving in NATO joined the effort to sidetrack the Nunn measure, a report on "burden sharing" made public by the Defense Department Tuesday appeared to support many of Mr. Nunn's charges.

The Bush administration's decision to refer North Korea's revival of its nuclear-weapons program to the United Nations is a reasonable but transparent effort to sidetrack the issue in hopes of avoiding another military crisis on the eve of war with Iraq.

Turkey is a key U.S. military ally that borders Syria, Iran and Iraq, and the increased unrest in the Middle East heightened Clinton's efforts to sidetrack the resolution.

Bair became a thorn in the side of Treasury, which ganged up with the Fed to try to sidetrack her.

So far, those efforts have failed to sidetrack Mr. Romney's march to the Republican nomination; he remains at the top of most surveys, nationally and in several of the important early states.

The four women brushed off as mere politics the effort by former President Bill Clinton to sidetrack Mr. Obama's campaign here in 2008.

The White House confirmed Thursday that it had suggested an administration job to a Colorado Democrat to sidetrack his challenge to Senator Michael Bennet, the second time it has acknowledged such an effort in the last week.