Sentence examples for make a diversion from inspiring English sources

A second man, who did not wish to be named, said he had been travelling towards North Farm Industrial Estate when he was forced to make a diversion.

Pilgrims travelling from Rome to Santiago de Compostela would make a diversion to stay at the Domaine de Laval de Nize, in the Hérault region of France, by the Parc Naturel Régional de Haut-Languedoc.

Next they receive emergency signals from Icarus I. Should they make a diversion for humanitarian reasons or would it make sense to get hold of the earlier ship's payload to make a bigger bang for the world's bucks?

Setting off again we make a diversion to the Baines baobabs, a group of 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldby treess byines in 1862.

…from Educating Yorkshire Suggested by Kennedytown Let's make a diversion from the fictional characters and add to our list "the real thing, Mr. Burton on Educating Yorkshire", as suggested by Kennedytown.

On May 19, the Iraqis were about to drive west through Nablus toward Tulkarm, and asked the Syrians to make a diversion in the Degania area to protect their right flank.

In February 1945, President Roosevelt – on his way home from the "Big Three" Yalta summit with Stalin and Churchill – made a diversion which alarmed his British allies.

Even now, sometimes, this man who does not easily give in to the sentimental makes a diversion when he is driving to or from the Emirates and stops outside the old East Stand facade on Avenell Road to remember.

I tilt obsessively at the windmills of Darfur because, quite simply, its people haunt me: the young woman who deliberately made a diversion of herself so the janjaweed would gang-rape her and miss her little sister running in the opposite direction; the man whose eyes were gouged out with a bayonet; the group of women beaten with their own babies until the children were dead.

Meander along the Mekong River through traditional villages in Kompong Cham and Kratie before making a diversion east to the elevated provinces of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri.

Washington wrote to Congress that the work "was for the purpose of exciting jealousies at Quebec and at the Enemy's posts on the St. lawrence, and of making a diversion in favor of the late expedition under general Sullivan... this very happily succeeded".