Sentence examples for first diverted from inspiring English sources

The country's attention was first diverted by a mid-August attack by Palestinian militants that killed eight Israelis near the southern city of Eilat, near the Egyptian border, and a subsequent flare-up in violence along the Israel-Gaza border.

After delays in assembling the forces in China (British troops that were en route were first diverted to India to help quell the Indian Mutiny), the allies began military operations in late 1857.

After briefly outlining the hardware and software architecture of the EAST plasma control system, this paper summarizes the plasma control results in the first plasma and first diverted plasma campaigns.

First, taxpayer dollars are first diverted from schools, infrastructure, and other city needs.

For the age at which energy is first diverted to reproduction, we used T = 1, so that fish start spawning at age 2. In our model, the length of fish of age 2 years was usually larger than 40 cm (the smallest length was 36 cm in the unexploited case).

In the West, water law is founded on the principle of "first in time is first in right"—in other words, he who first diverts water from a river has the strongest claim on it.

It is about the joy, the grandeur of acting, two vagabond actors first diverting, then driving a cunningly structured storyline.

Rather, unlucky circumstances (the misleading evidence about Jones's car) have interfered with his skillful cognitive performance, just as the first diverting gust of wind interfered with the archer's shot.

How do guns first get diverted into illegal hands?

During the Shah's era, the first tunnel diverted flow to Isfahan's drying Zayandeh-Rud.

The first was diverted into his own net by Julien Escudé, a defender who had done more than most of the Sevilla men to plug gaps and keep Barcelona at bay for 49 minutes.