I don't think war talk will divert their attention.
Acupunturists talk about diverting the flow of qi energy.
"When you're talking about alternative routes, you're talking about diverting traffic into our villages, towns and cities," Ronald Bianchi, the supervisor-mayor of Harrison, said at a meeting in Mamaroneck on traffic.
His staff talks about diverting the flow of nearby rivers to feed Lake Urema or drilling wells to supply watering holes for animals.
When the races were being replayed, as they came to the finish line, the crowd would stop talking and divert their attention to the track.
Though his convention speech talked of diverting payroll taxes to individual accounts, nothing was in it about reducing Social Security benefits.
The prime minister is talking about diverting taxes currently earmarked for road construction and maintenance to other purposes -- and Hokkaido receives the largest share of those taxes.
More devious still is the possibility United may be using Giggs, or at least a settled succession, as a smokescreen to cover talks to divert Guardiola from his assumed path to Manchester City and smuggle him into Old Trafford while no one is looking.
More and more companies I talk to are diverting dollars away from print Yellow Pages into these local platforms.
As she immersed herself in the culture and began talking to people, her attention kept being diverted.
Participants reported using other strategies to manage their work-related stress, such as talking with friends or participating in activities that diverted their attention from the distress (eg, Internet shopping, exercising, drinking, or socializing at a café).
