Sentence examples for sapping attention from inspiring English sources

But the milk war is sapping attention from crucial parenting issues.

Just two days into the Olympic hockey tournament, the N.H.L. finds itself facing a contentious issue that is sapping attention from play on the ice and creating the impression, at least, that it is standing in the way of the patriotic preferences of players on underdog Olympic teams.

Fundamental plot arcs Ben Schmidt | Sapping Attention | 16 December 2014.

If these visualisations have piqued your interest, Ben Schmidt, of Sapping Attention has used the same data to create two animations of the journeys over time.

At the blog Sapping Attention, Ben Schmidt, a doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University, notes that between 1950 and 2002, the percentage of male college students who major in the humanities nationally remained steady at roughly 7 percent.

Biblio bizarre: Who publishes in Google Books Ben Schmidt | Sapping Attention | 3 April 2014 Large-scale book digitisation makes Ngrams possible; but it also makes Ngrams obsolete for analysing literature later than 2000.

Lacking money or time can lead one to make poorer decisions, possibly because poverty imposes a cognitive load that saps attention and reduces effort.

But none of these distractions compare, in intensity and addictiveness, to the one increasingly sapping our attention at the wheel: smartphones.

Within a few months of his assignment, Beers concluded, as Clarke did also, that the Administration's focus on Iraq was sapping its attention to the war on terrorism and the demands of homeland security.

We've made tools to sap our attention.

It saps time, attention and energy away from the core thing that any young business needs to do which is to grow.