Sentence examples for served to deflect from inspiring English sources

But, above all, it has served to deflect attention from Keith's darker actions during the rest of the First World War.

Not only did the war issue itself give Obama a boost, but at key moments throughout the campaign it served to deflect Clinton's attacks.

Inside Syria, opposition activists called the observer mission a sham that had only served to deflect attention from the failure of the world powers to stop Mr. Assad's forces from killing civilians.

As Joan Wallach Scott argues in her new book, "Sex and Secularism," the idea of the repressive yet lustful Muslim patriarch has long served to deflect attention from French society's discrimination against women, just as Muslim women's "purported state of abjection" has been held up as "the antithesis of whatever 'equality' means in the West".

Those antics have served to deflect a serious discussion of the implications of his policies and his statements...and words do matter.

While nominally independent it served to deflect criticism of Fisher and the Board of Admiralty as it had no ability to consider options other than those already decided upon by the Admiralty.

Daylight falls from devices on the roof called light monitors, and angular ceiling areas, called "crinkles," serve to deflect the daylight smoothly throughout a room.

It also serves to deflect domestic attention away from the global financial crisis, which is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the Russian economy, and towards the perceived enemies on Russia's doorstep.

With the trees serving to deflect the snow, I set up camp, dug out a small pit for a fire, cooked dinner, and headed quickly for the comfort and warmth of my sleeping bag.

This reply, so far as it goes, can also serve to deflect another objection, which is that the mental attributes assigned to the fundamental physical entities by the panpsychist must lack all causal efficacy, that is be entirely epiphenomenal, since the physical world, as described by physics, is causally closed.

If there is such emphasis on male sexual power, this serves perhaps to deflect attention from all the other areas of our experience characterised by powerlessness.