Sentence examples for kept distracting from inspiring English sources

But events back home kept distracting him.

He was trying to stick to his new role of wonky Haitian statesman, but the road kept distracting him.

His crusades to save Sullivan buildings kept distracting him from his research, and he was never satisfied with his versions of the manuscript.

I tried to keep on track, but whenever I spotted a reference to Hulagu, or descriptions of Mongol conquests in central Asia (Genghis Khan's armies were said to have killed 1.6 million people in the city of Herat in northwestern Afghanistan in 1222; that's 1.6 million, dispatched with arrows, clubs, and swords), the pointing finger of bin Laden kept distracting me.

We'd been itching to return, but other destinations (many of them elsewhere in Italy) kept distracting us - very pleasantly.

How divided are we from our own memory as we are kept distracted oh so sadly by the media and political forces?

Schlesinger rarely records thoughts about the books he is reading or writing, except to note how far behind he is and to regret that his addiction to politics and parties keeps distracting him from his work.

Although the colors are not particularly bright or full of contrasts, they produce very jumpy, almost fierce optical effects, thanks to the way the multiplying lines keep distracting the eye.

Yet until the economy rebounds, questions like "Will I have enough to retire comfortably?" and "Do my spouse and children need a larger inheritance than I previously assumed?" are likely to keep distracting donors from philanthropy.

That keeps distracting chief information officers (CIOs) from their triple mission of running IT, serving the businesses and managing the overall flow of information and data throughout an enterprise.

We can't just keep distracting ourselves we do have to educate ourselves and wake up and do something about it.