In 2007, CLAW was roped in to start a diversion program for youngsters affected by gang violence and anti-social behaviors.
But what started as a diversion, a leisure activity to help fill my empty hours, became a kind of organizing principle, one that would guide my choices and ultimately bring me much more — strength, joy, anguish, understanding, community, disaster, even love — than I could have ever imagined.
For example, a student in our Civil Justice Clinic used an applied research project to help Durham start an Eviction Diversion program that now serves as a model for addressing the housing crisis facing low-income tenants across the region.
"You know things are bad when Trump tries to start a sex scandal to create a diversion".
They started the federation as a diversion, giving it an over-the-top logo (winged lions whose mouths are stuffed with the ends of a hot dog, and a Latin inscription that means, "In gorging, truth") and the mock-serious name of International Federation of Competitive Eating, or I.F.O.C.E.
The role of the BBC started as a masterful diversion by Alastair Campbell from the big picture.
Moreover, salinity ingress has been observed as a consequence of reduced dry season flow of the major distributaries of the Ganges River, which started with the diversion of the Ganges flow by India following the construction of the Farakka barrage (Mirza 2004).
Don E. Dutton, commissioner of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board, said a statewide task force there plans to recommend the start of such a diversion program by year's end.
As a diversion, he started making fighting robots for the cable show Robot Wars, and one of his creations finished second in a 2001 world championship.
Continuity mistake: When Roman starts the diversion we see Dom and Brian walk off and stop as 2 security guards in silver suits emerge from round a corner.
