He is too much of a hate figure and is detracting from real points of discussion.
Some university officials fear that students' new pragmatism is detracting from their overall collegiate experience.
But it seems that attention to the flashier, exhibition side of things is detracting from NARA's real work: making documents available for public release.
This metastatic growth of patent disputes is detracting from what tech companies do best, which is to build products that improve our lives.
What I feel most responsibility for is that this is detracting from the very strong case the president has been making".
The immense expense of keeping a few humans alive in space is detracting from NASA's budget for studying Earth from space and understanding how to maintain the well-being of much larger numbers of earth-bound humans.
Alas, all this reminiscing about the legal, offshore "pirate" broadcasters of the 1960s is detracting from the fact that, in today's world, pirate broadcasters are illegal and a serious problem - for a number of reasons.
Prentis's intervention will increase the pressure on Miliband, whose attempt to change the way unions fund the Labour party has met with widespread hostility among many union activists, who say it is detracting from the real issues.
I do know that obsessing over their numbers, and the column inches devoted to them, is detracting from the real issues in the sex industry at the moment: trafficking, child prostitution, hard-core porn.
"Sadly what is going on is detracting from everything that is good about Welsh rugby," said Jones.
