Sentence examples for primary distraction from inspiring English sources

At this point, I think Iraq is a primary distraction from achieving our goals or reducing the threat of international terrorism".

A study supported by the Automobile Association of America Foundation and conducted by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center revealed that distractions outside the vehicle, like gawking at accidents, other drivers, pedestrians, animals and even road construction were the primary distraction culprits in road accidents.

Remember, your primary goal is distraction.

Even though he is widely expected to win the Republican nomination, the primary is proving a distraction.

Though initiation to regulate is primary expected in the distraction condition as shown in the non-offender controls, violent offenders already showed overactive initiation to regulate emotions during the anger engagement instruction.

As the president, his top donors and advisers gathered here for year-end campaign briefings, the unruly Republican primary provided a welcome distraction for Democrats who are nervous about the general election.

But Mr. Obama's campaign seemed to welcome the fight not only as the hoped-for start of his campaign's next phase, but also as a welcome distraction from primary in West Virginia where it is girding for a huge loss it hopes will not provide a comeback storyline for Senator Hillary Clinton's sagging campaign in the news media.

Availability of a tailored online database is the desire for many investigators or research communities; however, managing the Information Technology infrastructure needed to create such a database can be an undesired distraction from primary research or potentially cost prohibitive.

The polio program similarly has no stake in helping measles immunization, which it would see as a distraction from its primary aim of eradicating polio.

As Pearson sheds media assets that it says are a "distraction" from its primary focus on education (the FT sold, the Economist up for sale), the Bookseller reports that getting rid of its 47% stake in Penguin Random House is a question of "when rather than if".

Parents and staff view themselves as responsible for alleviating patient fatigue; patients viewed rest and distraction as their primary sources of improving fatigue.