Who wanted to win this one "clean" in order to deflect attention from the past.
He may be especially keen in order to deflect attention from his indictment by the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Some analysts believe the delay was deliberate, in order to deflect media attention over the holiday period.
Instead, it asks if denying the highly probable truth of an old evil is justified in order to deflect a newer evil: people like Brenda Goodsen.
They would focus on Thomas's hardscrabble upbringing in the small Georgia town of Pin Point in order to deflect questions about his political and judicial philosophy.
Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.
At one point, Gilman proposed outright deception, suggesting to Martoma that they supply the Gerson Lehrman Group with fraudulent pretexts for meetings, in order to deflect suspicion.
News Ltd on Sunday reported the treasurer, Scott Morrison, was considering reinstating budget cuts made to Asic, and bolstering their powers, in order to deflect calls for a royal commission.
We can only assume they were gathering information in an attempt to discredit the family's campaign for justice in order to deflect accountability for their own failings.
One accused the West of creating a crisis over the aid groups in order to deflect attention from the real problem, which they said was the indictment.
