Ranchers here are fencing cows off stream banks and drilling wells to water stock instead of diverting it.
Often investigations show that the tug of war with the utility forces the military to spend budgeted funds for electrical power instead of diverting money to to other uses, which at times have included building country residences for generals.
So instead of diverting some Social Security payroll tax to individual investment accounts as Mr. Bush would, Mr. Gore proposed to create similar savings accounts on top of Social Security.
"Instead of diverting attention from the real issue, they should concentrate on how to fight against terrorism and bring to book the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack," Mr. Mukherjee said.
What Congress should do, instead of diverting attention and resources to fixing election night coverage, is to fix the democratic process that was exposed as shamefully imperfect in this election.
And he took a swipe at Flagg's structure, saying that the monochrome of City Investing emphasized the mass and form of a work of architecture, "instead of diverting the attention and confusing its architecture" with several colors, like, say, the bright red brick, limestone and white terra-cotta Singer Building.
If Mr. Bush had put all our effort into getting the Qaeda leader back in 2002, instead of diverting money and expertise to Iraq, it's possible that Osama bin Laden might now be facing international justice and unable to plan further attacks.
This means that the new private secure training centre which opened this year and two others which are due to follow in the next few years will end up largely replacing the homes which have closed instead of diverting children from prison.
"The trick is to up-regulate repair instead of diverting that energy into getting fat.
After all, instead of diverting attention to the business sector, Apple instead focused on emerging and newer technologies to make one of the coolest phones ever.
