Sentence examples for obvious diversion from inspiring English sources

Cellphones are the most obvious diversion: 39 states are considering legislation to ban their handheld use while driving.

Others use more obvious diversion tactics, either changing the subject – "why didn't you talk about this incident from eight years ago" – or by making false comparisons – "why don't you care about real gender discrimination, like women suffering in the Middle East".

An obvious diversion is pharmaceuticals.

This led to an obvious diversion of funds from necessary infrastructural developments in Portugal itself.

The show is almost deliberately thin on story -- with obvious diversions from the original 2000 film -- which didn't seem to bother the crowd chock full of applauding teenagers.

The most obvious benefit of diversion programs is that they avoid the expense and harshness of the full operation of the criminal law.

Also, an aid worker with first-hand knowledge of poverty in another context may spot certain issues that other fresh arrivals would miss, such as obscure coping mechanisms or obvious opportunities for diversion of goods or fraud.

Here it must have been unbearable, not a welcome diversion but an obvious device.

In The Tempest (perhaps the most original of all his plays in form, theme, language, and setting) folk influences may also be traced, together with a newer and more obvious debt to a courtly diversion known as the masque, as developed by Ben Jonson and others at the court of King James.

Where this reluctant, plausibly uneasy family is headed is obvious, but Mr. Muschietti throws out enough diversions and visual wit to keep you distracted from the predictable turns.

Extending the concept to one of the English-speaking world's favourite diversions, drinking beer, seemed an obvious step to Grugeon.