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That news also means that Hardwired itself is something of a diversionary tactic.

To Peter King of SI.com, firing the defensive coordinator Juan Castillo reeks of a diversionary tactic that does nothing to solve the team's real woes.

If this sounds uninspired, it assuredly is, yet the setup mostly turns out to be something of a diversionary tactic meant to throw you off the Farrellys' real game plan.

The results lend credence to the implementation of two browser management strategies (1) in the short term, the provision of a diversionary feed and (2) limiting the abundance of alternative herbage so that over time the plantation landscape supports lower populations of browsers.

Shy colors emerge, like the buttery yellow of the sun-drenched sand in Manet's small, bluntly described close-up of a diversionary maneuver in a bullring, or the brown-pink carpet in Chardin's lovely "Lady With Bird-Organ," an image of a modestly dressed Parisian teaching her canary to sing.

There were so very many government proposals David Cameron could have stolen and palmed off as his own by way of a diversionary tactic, but the one the Tory leader plumped for was a plan to relax the laws on stop and search.

This stretch of Fourth, between Miles 6 and 7, was once a bit dingy and off the commercial path, but is now ripe for a diversionary game of Count the Condos.

The battle, which took place from 9 to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive.

These are dwarves strutting around in giants' robes - only the so-called giants before them managed to miss most opportunities for negotiation, and had a nasty habit, whenever the prospect of a "partner" in dialogue came close, of launching a diversionary attack on the Palestinians, triggering a violent response.

He accused Mr. Campbell of waging a diversionary "vendetta".

The ship was tasked to support the invasion of the Aleutian Islands, a diversionary thrust in support of the attack on Midway.