He distrusted intellectual reformers, fearing their influence would divert labour's efforts away from economic goals.
This negative perception perhaps is a determinant influence in diverting talented students into other medical subspecialties.
In Vietnam, corruption meant, among other things, that officials would buy or sell government jobs, peddle influence or divert procurements for their own profit.
According to that hypothesis, hysterical symptoms originate through the energy of a mental process being withheld from conscious influence and being diverted into bodily innervation ("Conversion").
There are even more ways to create a lock-box system that ensure the money can't be diverted or influenced by political considerations.
Presidential campaigns are now financed largely by public funds, but the big contributions from special interests that once influenced Presidential elections have been diverted to Congressional campaigns, and many critics and members of Congress say the contributions are a major corrupting influence.
"She imagined," wrote Francis Bacon a few years after the queen's death, "that the people, who are much influenced by externals, would be diverted by the glitter of her jewels, from noticing the decay of her personal attractions".
Next, he bathes in the Book of Psalms, marvelling at their "raw truthfulness", but quickly gets diverted into chronicling their influence on the poetry of the 17th-century priest George Herbert.
We are again besieged by influences that would divert or distract us from our missions of teaching and learning, discovering knowledge and of healing and serving society.
Doubters in France, for instance, are concerned that in a European Union with almost double the current membership, French influence might be diluted, and beneficial resources diverted from the French economy.
