That diverts attention from the crux of the matter.
"I certainly thought about falling from the crux — I thought about what that would mean," he said.
The burned-out facades and shattered windows, caving porches and crumbling rooftops that mar the landscape from the crux of downtown to the city's outskirts.
The largest remaining concentration of fighters appears to be a group of as many as 100 to 150 Chechens, who have slipped away from the crux of the fight and are moving north and west, toward the village of Zormat, a Pentagon official said.
But Tongo "never strayed from the crux of his evidence" about the murder plot.
The Wardaman people of the Northern Territory in Australia perceived the stars of Triangulum Australe as the tail of the Rainbow Serpent, which stretched out from near Crux across to Scorpius.
In making these points about Asians, I don't want to distract anyone from the crux of Roof's attack far more than anything else, it's about the long history of white extremist terrorism against blacks.
Thus the men were excluded from the crux of the project (Waldenburg, 1972: 16).
Our No. 1 wine was the 2006 Alfa Crux from O. Fournier, an inviting, balanced wine that may seem a bit simple now but will, I think, gain in complexity over the next few years.
Here's the crux from Shorten, who said Labor had supported a chaplaincy scheme "which would see trained welfare professionals being there to back up the work of our teachers to make sure our children are doing well".
